Stylus Phantasticus

Stylus Phantasticus

We were born in Argentina, Germany and France, studied in Basle and live at the moment in France, Italy and Germany. We speak three of Georg Muffat’s four languages and, amongst ourselves, the language of diplomacy: French.


Pablo Valetti, Violin
Friederike Heumann, Viola da gamba
Eduardo Egüez, Theorbo & Baroque guitar
Dirk Börner, Harpsichord & Organ


„Hence this style is the most free and unconstrained manner of setting, singing and playing music one can possibly imagine, for one quickly turns from one idea to the next as all sorts of otherwise unusual passages, hidden embellishments, profound turns and ornaments are brought forth without actual observation of the beat and note, now with urgency, now with hesitation, now one part, now many parts; now also shortly after the beat: without strict measure; but not without the intention to please, to precipitate and astound.“

Johann Mattheson, Der Vollkommene Capellmeister (Hamburg 1739)

Hortus Musicus

Der Musikgarten des Johann Adam Reincken (1643 – 1722)


Sonaten, Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden & Giquen.
For 2 Violins, Viola da gamba & Basso continuo
(Hamburg, 1688)


Stylus Phantasticus
Pablo Valetti, Violin
David Plantier, Violin
Friederike Heumann, Viola da gamba
Eduardo Egüez, Theorbo & Baroque guitar
Dirk Börner, Harpsichord & Organ

Musical DirectionFriederike Heumann

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  • Himmelszeichen – Planetenmusik:

    Himmelszeichen – Planetenmusik:

    Triosonaten von Dietrich Buxtehude für Violine, Viola da gamba und Cembalo

    Stylus Phantasticus: Pablo Valetti, Violine • Friederike Heumann, Viola da gamba • Dirk Börner, Cembalo Die Musik des Barock verstand sich als Spiegelbild der göttlichen Harmonie und der kosmischen Ordnung. […]

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  • Suonate à doi

    Suonate à doi

    Seven keys – seven planets – a cosmos of sound, diverse and varied, free and unrestrained in the Stylus Phantasticus. There is hardly any chamber music of greater beauty. Sieben […]

  • Hortus Musicus

    Hortus Musicus

    The programme of our CD with Stylus Phantasticus, which was released by Accent.

  • Bachs Quellen

    Bachs Quellen

    The two programmes (Hortus Musicus and Suonate à doi) can be combined, also, for example, with trio sonatas by J. S. Bach, who travelled on foot to both these teachers, […]

  • Ach, daß ich Wassers g’nug hätte

    Ach, daß ich Wassers g’nug hätte

    Cantatas and instrumental music by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Franz Tunder and Johann Christian Friedrich Bach, including, among others, Buxtehude’s Lament on the death of his father and Tunder’s […]

  • Zeichen im Himmel

    Zeichen im Himmel

    Impressive settings of Baroque texts from the seventeenth century that express the fear of “blood comets” and other scourges of the times. To be heard on a CD release with […]

  • Ciaccona: il mondo che gira

    Ciaccona: il mondo che gira

    Cantatas for solo voice with María Cristina Kiehr, soprano and / or Victor Torres, baritone and Stylus Phantasticus (2 violins, 1 to 3 viole da gamba, theorbo, harpsichord/organ) trio sonatas […]

  • L’Harmonie des Nations

    L’Harmonie des Nations

    A CD with this programme was released by Accent (Diapason d´Or)

  • Apollo & Dafne

    Apollo & Dafne

    This programme is a kind of opéra en miniature (the texts of the vocal pieces relate the story in the manner of a libretto, with the instrumental pieces being part […]

  • Le Parnasse Français

    Le Parnasse Français

    French chamber music and cantatas with Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano, and Stylus Phantasticus: deeply emotional and dramatic cantatas with mythological female. aufgewühlte dramatische Kantaten mythologischer Frauengestalten (Medea, Ariadne, Dido..).

  • The Fantastic Style in England

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