Between Aragon and Castile.
Spain ruled Naples from 1504, a viceroyalty under the reign of the “Catholic kings” Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, before joining the Holy Roman Empire led by Charles V in 1619.
It is in this dense geopolitical area between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between religious wars and carnival madness, that we find the first traces of a “harmonic bass and its melody” that will cross borders, oceans and centuries.
From Diego Ortiz to Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Marin Marais, this is a journey designed around the harpsichord and a violin, where the art of variation, improvisation and virtuosity reigns!
Several paintings interspersed with readings and listening keys:
- Elizabethan England in the 16th century
- the Roman and Neapolitan 17th century
- some Parisian Enlightenment
Before finishing at the Spanish Court in the last years of the 18th century, between lightness and decline. Some surprises too…
