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A Musical Journey Through the Baroque West

This program is an invitation to discovery. The audience is taken on an imaginary day in which several musical scenes take place, in the middle of the Baroque period, beyond physical borders. Like a piece of descriptive music, this selection echoes the musical diversity of Baroque Europe, a succinct description of its richness and dynamism .
Music by d'Athanasius Kircher, Georg Friedrich Haendel, Henry Purcell, Alessandro Piccinini, Santiago de Murcia, Tobias Hume, Marin Marais, Gottfried Finger, William Byrd, Johann Gottfied Walther, arrangements of folk Irish and Scottish music

Bass and treble viola da gamba, harpsichord, theorbo and guitar, recorder