Monday, 8 April 2019 at 20.00, Atrij ZRC, Ljubljana

Michael Praetorius and Music for Members of the Khisl Family

Programme: Michael Praetorius, Philippe de Duc, Pietro Antonio Bianco, Matthia Ferrabosco, Angelo Barbato, Lodovico Balbi, Romano Michieli, Claudio Merulo

The musica cubicularis viol consort: Domen Marinčič, Christoph Prendl, Tore Eketorp, Christoph Urbanetz, Cristiano Contadin

The international viol consort musica cubicularis will perform five-part dances from Michael Praetorius’s Terpsichore along with madrigals, canzonettas, motets, canons and ricercars from seven printed collections published in Venice between 1574 and 1615 and dedicated to members of the Khisl family. New transcriptions were made especially for this concert and some pieces will receive their modern premieres.

From its founding in 2004, musica cubicularis has focused on earlier repertoires performed on appropriate period instruments. Its programmes often include lesser-known music and works still unavailable in modern editions such as opera arias from the Attems archive from Slovenska Bistrica, dialogues from the archive of Koper Cathedral, sacred music from the Franciscan Monastery in Novo Mesto and concerts from the Ptuj collection. The ensemble has appeared at festivals in Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Germany and Spain, collaborating with numerous singers and instrumentalists, including leading specialists such as Manfredo Kraemer, William Dongois and Edoardo Torbianelli.

This concert will be performed within the series of Harmonia concertans – Stara glasba na Novem trgu (Old Music on the New Square).