Orpheus’ Treasure Trove – Stylus Phantasticus

Stylus Phantasticus was the most radical style of the early Baroque – a world of improvisation and spontaneity, free from strict rules. Here, we encounter the great masters of the Austrian and South German Baroque.

Antonio Bertali and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer paved the way with their virtuosic inventiveness, while Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Georg Muffat brought the style to its height with dramatic contrasts, daring harmonies and technical brilliance. Expect the unexpected: sudden shifts between melancholy and ecstatic joy – 17th-century music was anything but predictable.

Orpheus Baroque Stockholm was founded in 2015 and has established itself as one of the leading Nordic ensembles for early music. The ensemble brings together musicians from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and distinguished freelance Baroque specialists. Its artistic directors are the orchestra’s principal cellist Johannes Rostamo and the lutenist Jonas Nordberg. As guest directors, Orpheus Baroque regularly invites leading musicians from the Swedish and international early music scene.

This time, we hear the ensemble in its more chamber music-oriented setting under the banner of Orpheus’s Treasure Trove.