Sunday, November 24th at 5:00pm ✺ All Saints' Episcopal Church
504 North Camden Drive,  Beverly Hills

La Selva Selvaggia:
From Diminution to the Stylus Phantasticus

The new Italian styles of instrumental music that crossed the Alps in the early Baroque–deemed to be improvisatory, wild, bizarre–were identified as the ‘stylus phantasticus’ (the fantastic style) by German theorists.

At the same time, these “new” styles were largely grounded in older practices: namely the improvisation of diminutions (a form of florid ornamentation). This program explores the fertile ground in which these seeds of Renaissance improvisation grew into the early Baroque sonata and toccata.

Enjoy music by Palestrina, Arcadelt, Kapsberger, Riccio, Rognoni, Frescobaldi, Castello, and others!

Tickets: $50/$35/$25/20
Free admittance for children (under 18) and members of the All Saints’ Music Guild.
Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended.

Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano
Andrea Zomorodian, soprano
Julia Metzler, alto
Michael Jones, tenor
Brett McDermid, bass

Alex Opsahl, recorders & cornetto
Andrew McIntosh, baroque violin
Leif Woodward, bowed bass
Robert Wang, theorbo
Ian Pritchard, virginals