Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's music is amazingly different from the more commonly heard baroque style, definitely far more fanciful. The nature of his compositions is essentially extreme improvisation on paper, free and unpredictable explorations of themes or just abstract fantasies

Ricordo play their programmes entirely from memory in order to free themselves from the printed page and to enhance communication between themselves and the audience. "Ricordo" is the Italian word for "Memory".