This concert featured the glorious sounds of the early baroque orchestra: brasses (sackbuts and cornet) and strings (violins, viola di gamba and violone) accompanied by organ, harpsichord and voice. Highlights included rarely-heard but luscious works by such early baroque masters as Pavel Vejvanovsky, Johann Schmelzer, Giovanni Cesare, Tarquinio Merula, and Carlo Farina:

• The Honie Suckle; Anthony Holborne (1599)
• Chiacona; Tarquinio Merula (1637)
• Sonata I for three sackbuts; Daniel Speer (1687)
• Pavana and Gagliarda; Carlo Farina (1626)
• La Augustana; Gio. Martino Cesare (1621)
• Gaudeamous omnes; Tarquinio Merula (1631)
• Sonata a 5; Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (ca. 1690)
• The Night Watch; Anthony Holborne (1599)
• Sonata Seconda; Dario Castello (1629)
• Sonata II for three sackbuts; Daniel Speer (1687)
• Desde las torres (Romance a 4); Juan Blas de Castro (ca. 1600)
• Sonata II a 8 duobus Choris; Johann Schmelzer (1662)
• Vedro'l mio sol; Giulio Caccini (1601)
• Sonata SS. Petri et Pauli; Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (ca. 1690)

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