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 Manuel de Falla, via 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…
