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Listen to the Costanzi Consort at their Casali CD Launch Concert
The history of music making in Rome tends to focus on Renaissance polyphony, with an occasional nod to the baroque thereafter. But thanks to composers like Giovanni Battista Casali (1715 - 92), choral music continued to flourish in Roman churches and other religious establishments in the eighteenth century too, until Napoleon's occupation broke many of its traditions.
Casali's music, though, is as good as unknown, and this pioneering recording reveals a composer at home in the galant style - with a surprising fondness for occasional dissonance.
This concert will showcase sacred music from C.18th Rome as featured on Costanzi Consort's first CD recording which will be available on CD and streaming platforms through Toccata Classics label, and the concert will celebrate the launch of the CD which will be available at a discounted price of £10 at the concert.
Tickets: Adults £15, Students/U18s £7
Available through website (www.costanziconsort.org.uk) or at the door until sold out.
Audience members who purchase tickets in advance of the concert will receive a complimentary glass of prosecco or juice.
