Senās mūzikas festivāls. Elīna Šimkus un Fantasia Ficta (Šveice)

Jovial and passionate, pulsing with energy, slow and heavy, solemn, and wildly fast – such are the dances of this concert programme. Music from both well known and completely anonymous Renaissance authors – the works of Spanish, Italian, French and Flemish masters will be performed in Rundāle Palace in the interpretation of young specialists of early music. The Swiss ensemble Fantasia Ficta was founded in 2016 when a group of graduates of the Geneva University of Music Early music department met again in a programme dedicated to Luca Marenzio titled ‘Love, death and Renaissance’. They reunited and are still performing together, and do it so passionately and skillfully that Fantasia Ficta has already earned the reputation of one of the most interesting newcomers to the Early music scene.

Musicians:
Elīna Šimkus, soprano
Ensemble Fantasia Ficta 

Programme:
Music of Jacopo da Bologna, John Dowland, Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Carlo Gesualdo, Juan Cornago, Francesco Landini, Tarquinio Merula, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Cipriano de Rore, Antonio Sartorio, Giovanni Antonio Terzi, Adrian Willaert, and anonymous authors.