Over het album

Charivari Agréable perform a collection of overtures from the Italian Baroque Opera, best described by director Kah-Ming Ng as “lucidly crafted for the purpose of turning heads”. In a decadent era when the theatregoers’ antics were often as intriguing as the on-stage performances, these works were composed to thrill, beguile and engage a distracted audience. Charivari Agréable represent ‘a new and very exciting phase of the early music revival, one that enriches the existing repertory and can bring us ever closer to the spirit of the original music.’ (Gramophone)