Jaroussky/L'Arpeggiata/Pluhar – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonCountertenor Philippe Jaroussky's latest project is a quirky collaboration with L'Arpeggiata and its theorbo-playing founder-director, Christina Pluhar. Entitled Teatro d'Amore, it examines the roles of ground basses and neo-Platonic philosophy in 17th-century Spanish and Italian music and beyond. This sounds lofty on paper, but is not so in practice.Variations over a ground bass, a favourite compositional method with early Baroque composers, also form the basis of much jazz ...

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