The group Catro Quince is made up of three well-known Galician musicians with different artistic backgrounds who converge in a shared interest in early music and early Baroque repertoires. Its name refers to a tuning frequency, lower than the usual one in modern orchestras, which offers less powerful but warmer sonorities, and which has been used as a common pattern in the performance of historically informed music.

The programme takes a journey through the music of different 17th-century composers and demonstrates the new style that is becoming established at the height of musical composition, characterised by the desire to generate emotions through strong contrasts in rhythm and dynamics and new interpretative forms. Hence the title that inspires the programme, taken from the recommendation that the Italian theorist La. Agazzari prescribed to performers to play ‘... with much invention and diversity’.

• Roberto Santamarina Fernández, baroque violin
• Carlos García Amigo, baroque cello
• Alejandra Docente Mujico, organ and spinet

Works by Araujo, Castello, Uccellini, Froberger and others