Photo Credit: David Saliba

BAROQUE FEMALE COMPOSERS - IN GOZO

EXTRA PERFORMANCE

Valletta Baroque Ensemble

Sunday 24, JANUARY | 8pm

Basilika San Gorg - Victoria, Gozo

Composing is usually a male prerequisite, nobody really knows why however there have, even during the Renaissance and Baroque Period been notable exceptions as demonstrated in this impressive line-up prepared by The Valletta Baroque Ensemble with Sopranos Gillian Zammit & Marouska Attard and Bass Albert Buttigieg

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PROGRAMME

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Rosa Giacinta Badalla 1660 – 1710                                                                           
Pane Angelico
Soprano and continuo

Isabella Leonarda 1620 -1704                                                                                   

Sonata Prima per 2 violini e continuo                                                                      

Caterina Assandra 1590 – 1618
O quam suavis est Domine spiritus tuus
Soprano, Bass and continuo

Mrs Philharmonica (circa – 1715)
Sonata No 1 in F major
2 violins and continuo
 

Maria Xaveria Peruchona 1652 - 1709

Solvite – Motetto del Signore

Soprano, Two Violins and Continuo

Isabella Leonarda 1620 -1704

Sonata Duedecima per violin e continuo                                                                   

Antonia Bembo                                                                                                         

Exaudiat te Dominus
2 Sopranos, Bass, 2 Violins and Basso continuo