Tekla Cunningham & Stephen Stubbs Stylus Phantasticus CD

In 1650, the polymath Athanasius Kircher first described the "Stylus Phantasticus", a style of Baroque music. This album contains eleven such works by early Baroque composers, tracing the evolution of this direction from Italian roots to the Central European "imperial style".
Stylus Phantasticus was produced by Grammy Award winner David Sabee at St. Thomas Chapel in Kenmore, Washington, with the assistance of sound engineers Dmitry Lipay, Aleksandr Lipay and Kory Kruckenberg. Tekla Cunningham (baroque violin), William Skeen (bass), Stephen Stubbs (baroque guitar and chitarrone), Maxine Eilander (baroque harp) and Henry Lebedinsky (organ and harpsichord) will play.

Features:

• CD

Musicians:

• Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin
• Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar, chitarrone
• William Skeen, bass
• Maxine Eilander, baroque harp
• Henry Lebedinsky, organ, harpsichord

Selections:

Carlo Farina (1600-1639)
1. Sonata Seconda detta la Desperata
Giovanni de Macque (1550-1614)
2. Toccata
Marco Uccellini (1603-1680)
3. La Luciminia contenta, Op.4 No.2
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
4. Partite sopra La Folia
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1630-1669/70)
5. La Castella, Op.3 No.4
Giovanni Battista Fontana (?-1630)
6. Sonata Seconda
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
7. Sonata Prima
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620-1680)
8. Ciaconna in A from Serenada in Mascara
Ignazio Albertini (1633-1685)
9. Sonata Prima for violin and continuo
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620-1680)
10. Sonata Seconda from Sonatæ unarum fidium
11. Sonata Quarta from Sonatæ unarum fidium