Masque Dance " The First Witches Dance", Robert Johnson (1583–1633)

Madrid  • 

This is a video from our concert in Madrid last April 7th, centred around English music from the 16th and 17th centuries, by Musickes Delight and invited musicians. "The First Witches' Dance" is an Antimasque Dance from around 1600, a type of dance that illustrated the bizarre, grotesque, dark and crazy, as you'll hear in our interpretation of the piece... These dances anticipated and contrasted the main Masque songs and dances, which were the image of all that was considered right by the nobles themselves. MUSICKES DELIGHT Lobke Sprenkeling - soprano ganassi recorder Óscar Gallego - viola da gamba Pedro Jesús Gómez - archlute Invited musicians: Elías Rivière - baroque violin Fernando Montes de Oca - baroque viola Concert "While Dancing Rests" at Espacio Ronda Madrid, April 7th 2022