DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Improvisation in the classical world and beyond, including contributions from David Arditti, James Lewitzke, James Ross and Steve Vasta.
VIDEO PODCAST: Come and meet Eric Fraad of Heresy Records, Kenneth Woods, musical director of Colorado MahlerFest and the English Symphony Orchestra and others.
The name of a popular sixteenth century chord progression or ground bass, which comes in two variants - the passamezzo antico and its major mode variation, the passamezzo moderno.
Also a performance group based in the UK, founded in 2001, initially to explore the Jacobean Masque, and specialising in English Elizabethan and Jacobean repertoire.
Ensemble. Perennial Themes - A winter programme from Passamezzo, heard by Emma Tristram