Preview – Early Music Guild Presents Ensemble Caprice: La Follia and the Gypsies

Recorder virtuoso Matthias Maute would be a phenomenon in any century.  Maute and Ensemble Caprice bring their creativity and fearlessness to Seattle this Saturday, as part of the Early Music Guild’s International Series.

It’s music that touches 3 centuries — maybe even more because it continues an unbroken oral tradition of the Romany people.

Ensemble Caprice  reconstructs music from a collection of gypsy melodies published in 1730 and blends it with court music of the 17th and 18th centuries.  Composers like Telemann and Vivaldi were intrigued by the gypsy music of the period.  In fact, Telemann wrote in his autobiography that listening to gypsy music for one week could inspire a serious composer for the rest of his life.

Media producer Marty Ronish talks with Matthias Maute about this repertoire.

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Early Music Guild of Seattle presents Ensemble Caprice

Saturday, Apr. 25th

8 pm, Town Hall, Seattle

Tickets here.