Artemandoline Baroque. Ensemble from Naples to Madrid

If there is one instrument more capable than any other of revealing the close and fruitful links between Naples and Madrid, and between Italy and Spain, during the Baroque period, it is the mandolin: in both classical and folk contexts. In the 17th and 18th centuries, this plucked instrument was extremely widespread, resounding in both town squares and stately homes, where it was cherished by nobles and the middle classes alike. And it is through rigorous research into the sources that Juan Carlos Muñoz and Mari Fe Pavón, drawing on scores, treatises, historical instruments and iconographic evidence, continue to unearth a repertoire born in those centuries, and to present it anew, together with the ensemble they founded twenty years ago, with the expertise of historical awareness, but above all with the expressive immediacy and creativity of performers of our time.