offered an overdue and richly researched history lesson on female composers of the 17th century. Of course, if you were just listening along instead of minding your program notes, they delivered an hour or so of extraordinary music.
But it was largely Francisco’s spotlight on Friday . She brought intuition, sensitivity and no small measure of courage to the complex ornamentation of Strozzi’s “Mater Anna.” Her closeness to the material was evident in a soaring reading of “O già della mia mano” — a selection of uncertain authorship from the 1613 multi-composer print collection “Canoro pianto di Maria Vergine sopra la faccia Christo Estinto.
Style is where The Washington Post covers happenings on the front lines of culture and what it all means, including the arts, media, social trends, politics and yes, fashion, all told with personality and deep reporting. For more Style stories,The coexistence of these three traditions in proximity, though sometimes uneasy, produced a fruitful yield of poetic forms, compositional theories and even musical instruments that would shape European arts and music in the centuries to come — e.g.