Nel regno d'Amore – Music by Giovanni Felice Sances in solo, dialog and trio

Concert 1: Between Mars and Venus, Series XVIII, Season 2025/26 / Four concerts by subscription

Sunday, October 5, 2025, 2 p.m. Bavarian National Museum, Mars-Venus Hall

Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679) was one of the most colorful figures of the early 17th century – a singer, composer, and musical bridge builder between Rome and Vienna. In his “Cantade – Libro Secondo” from 1633, we encounter early Italian secular cantatas in all their expressive power. Sances combined virtuoso vocal artistry with subtle poetry and brought this style to the imperial court in Vienna, where he created a diverse body of work – from operas to sacred compositions. This concert presents a selection of his most impressive vocal works, artfully accompanied by theorbo, archlute, baroque guitar, harpsichord, and organ—a sonorous portrait of a Baroque pioneer—rounded off by instrumental compositions of his Viennese contemporaries.

Performers:

Bryony Lang - soprano

Ivo Haun – tenor, lute

Axel Wolf – theorbo, baroque guitar

Michael Eberth – harpsichord, organ

Joel Frederiksen – bass, archlute, conductor

1st concert of the XVIII concert series “Between Mars and Venus”

With the kind support of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and the District of Upper Bavaria.