Galliarda

About Galliarda

Galliarda is a unique small early music group formed in 2010 and consists of highly respected performers who have wide experience of performing internationally, recording, teaching and research in the fields of Renaissance and Baroque Music. They present an unusual combination of instruments, offering maximum variety, with soprano voice, two viols, recorder(s) or flute, combined with lute, early guitar, theorbo and percussion.

This concert is entitled ‘Josep i Maria’, named after a Catalan Christmas carol. The traditional carols from the different regions of Spain are strongly featured in the first part of the programme, together with folk dance music and other Christmas songs from France, Germany and England. The second part of the concert moves into the baroque era with festive works chosen from composers such as Handel, Telemann, Purcell, Arne and Rosenmüller.