Summary: Exploring an early Baroque instrumental innovation known as the “stylus fantasticus” which flourished in Bohemia during the 17th Century. It was the style favoured by the Bishop of Olomouc-Kromeriz in what is now the Czech Republic. Lucie Skeaping plays examples from music composed by Biber, Schmelzer, Merulo, Frescobaldi and Froberger.
