Afternoon Concert: Claron McFadden and La Sfera Armoniosa

Claron McFadden and friends

The soprano Claron McFadden makes original choices in repertoire and presentation formats. She feels at home in various music genres, often combining classical music with pop, jazz and non-European music. Everything with flair and intensity. For this early baroque afternoon concert, McFadden collaborates with gamba player Paulina van Laarhoven, baroque harpist Emma Huijsser, and Mike Fentross brings his theorbo and baroque guitar.

An Italian journey

Claron McFadden's program offers a wide selection of works by composers who were active at courts or wrote for church dignitaries in Italy. Kapsberger, a lutenist, and Barbara Strozzi, a singer, employed the common combination of simultaneous careers as composers and performers. Francesca Caccini developed at the court of the Medici in Florence into the most important female composer of the early Baroque. The diversity of styles makes this concert extra attractive.

With thanks to the supporters of the Kleine Zaal Fund.