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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries

Friday 10 February 2023, 7.30pm

Laidlaw Music Centre, University of St Andrews, Queen’s Terrace, St Andrews KY16 9QF

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. In the three central sonatas Ricardo Barros dances as a third partner in the music.

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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday 9 April 2022, 4.00pm

Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by J.P.

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A musical offering

Saturday 18 December 2021, 7.30pm

Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew’s & St George’s West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons.

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Biber: the Joyful Mysteries

Thursday 9 December 2021, 7.00pm

Cambridge Early Music: Little St Mary’s Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QG

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play the first five of Biber’s Mystery or Rosary sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play music by composers of Biber’s time.

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A musical banquet

Sunday 5 December 2021, 3.00pm

Seaford Music Society: Seaford Baptist Church, Belgrave Road, Seaford BN25 2EE

A festive programme of Baroque music from various European countries.

The music

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Rosary sonatas (the Joyful Mysteries) – The Annunciation

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714): Sonata seconda in E minor

Giovanni Geronimo Kapsberger (c.

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All Bach

Saturday 24 July 2021, 7.00pm

King’s Lynn Festival: St Nicholas’ Chapel, St Ann’s Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1NH

For our first concerts since March 2020 and the eruption here of the Covid pandemic, we return to the music of J.S. Bach. Substantial pieces that feature the flute open and close the concert: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.

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All Bach

Wednesday 21 July 2021, 3.00pm

Haddo House, Methlick, Ellon, Aberdeenshire AB41 7EQ

For our first concerts since March 2020 and the eruption here of the Covid pandemic, we return to the music of J.S. Bach. Substantial pieces that feature the flute open and close the concert: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.

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All Bach

Sunday 18 July 2021, 3.00pm

Concerts at Cratfield: St Mary’s, Church Road, Cratfield, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0BU

This concert has now been cancelled

The music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):

Suite in B minor for flute and strings, BWV 1067

Canons from the Goldberg Variations,

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Bach and Buxtehude: 25th anniversary concert

Thursday 15 July 2021, 7.30pm

St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

Coming out of the long break of the Covid pandemic, we return to our founding inspiration: the music of J.S. Bach, complemented here with a piece by Dieterich Buxtehude, Bach’s admired older colleague. The group was founded in 1996 and gave its first concerts the following year.

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All Bach

Friday 9 July 2021, 7.30pm

Chichester Chamber Concerts: Assembly Room, Chichester Council House, North Street, Chichester PO19 1LQ

For our first concerts since March 2020 and the eruption here of the Covid pandemic, we return to the music of J.S. Bach. Substantial pieces that feature the flute open and close the concert: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.

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A musical offering

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 8.00pm

Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,

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Bach and Buxtehude

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 5.00pm

Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA

Coming out of the long break of the Covid pandemic, The Bach Players return to their founding inspiration: the music of J.S. Bach, complemented here with a piece by Dieterich Buxtehude, Bach’s admired older colleague.

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Bach and Goldberg: master and student

Thursday 28 January 2021, 7.30pm

Chichester Chamber Concerts: Assembly Room, Chichester Council House, North Street, Chichester PO19 1LQ

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer.

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All Bach

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 5.00pm

Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA

We return to the music of J.S. Bach in two concerts of about an hour each. At 5 pm we play two of Bach’s great works that feature the flute: the B minor Orchestral Suite and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto.

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A musical offering

Saturday 23 January 2021, 7.30pm

Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew’s & St George’s West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons.

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Biber: the Joyful Mysteries

Tuesday 8 December 2020, 7.30pm

Great St Mary’s, Senate House Hill, Cambridge CB2 3PQ

In this concert Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play the first five of Biber’s Mystery or Rosary sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time: Buxtehude and Pachelbel.

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The Grand Tour

Sunday 29 November 2020, 3.00pm

Seaford Music Society: St Leonard’s Church, Church Street, Seaford BN25 1LR

Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.

>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled

The music

Nicola Matteis (c.

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Bach and Goldberg: master and student

Sunday 4 October 2020, 3.00pm

Haddo House, Methlick, Ellon, Aberdeenshire AB41 7EQ

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer. As well as being a student of Bach,

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Bach and Goldberg: master and student

Friday 2 October 2020, 7.30pm

St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer. As well as being a student of Bach,

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Bach and Goldberg: master and student

Wednesday 30 September 2020, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso harpsichordist employed by Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, who commissioned a set of variations from Bach to combat his sleeplessness. Goldberg was their first performer. As well as being a student of Bach,

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The Grand Tour

Saturday 11 July 2020, 5.00pm

St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury, Shropshire SY7 0HG

Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.

>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled

The music

Nicola Matteis (c.

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The Grand Tour

Friday 10 July 2020, 7.00pm

Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT

Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.

>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled

The music

Nicola Matteis (c.

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The Grand Tour

Thursday 25 June 2020, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’.

>>> As a precaution against spreading Covid-19, this concert has been cancelled

The music

Nicola Matteis (c.

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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday 4 April 2020, 7.30pm

Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by J.P.

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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries

Sunday 29 March 2020, 5.00pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of H.I.F. Biber’s Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by J.P.

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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries

Sunday 15 March 2020, 5.00pm

St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury, near Craven Arms, Shropshire SY7 0HG

Following their first Biber concert at St Swithin’s, in December 2018, Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak perform the second cycle of the Rosary or Mystery sonatas. This cycle is concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it.

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Stabat Mater

Saturday 7 March 2020, 7.30pm

St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB

Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text was hugely popular and remains so – it is often thought of as ‘the’ version of the Stabat Mater. The concert also includes the Sinfonia and Sonata al Santo Sepolcro by Vivaldi – his only sacred instrumental pieces.

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Pour le souper du roi

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 7.30pm

Influence Church, Victoria Road, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4AS

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.

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Biber: the Joyful Mysteries

Wednesday 4 December 2019, 7.30pm

Clitheroe Grammar School, Sixth Form Centre, York Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 2DJ

In this concert Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play the first five of Biber’s Mystery or Rosary sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time: Buxtehude and Pachelbel.

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A European Christmas

Sunday 1 December 2019, 5.00pm

St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

A concert in celebration of Advent and Christmas, starting with music from the Austro-Italian seventeenth-century Catholic tradition; from the Annunciation to the birth of Jesus, with the focus on Mary and the baby Jesus. After the interval: the eighteenth-century Lutheran tradition in Germany with two cantatas by J. 

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A European Christmas

Thursday 28 November 2019, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

A concert in celebration of Advent and Christmas, starting with music from the Austro-Italian seventeenth-century Catholic tradition; from the Annunciation to the birth of Jesus, with the focus on Mary and the baby Jesus. After the interval: the eighteenth-century Lutheran tradition in Germany with two cantatas by J. 

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A musical offering

Sunday 3 November 2019, 3.30pm

Brighton Early Music Festival: St Paul’s Church, West Street, Brighton BN1 2RE

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,

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Couperin: l’Art de la Danse

Sunday 20 October 2019, 2.00pm

Two Moors Festival: New Assembly Room, South Molton, Devon EX36 3AB

We present a variety of François Couperin’s instrumental compositions in both the Italian and French styles: formal dances and character pieces, sonatas and harpsichord solo pieces. Our dancers will dance where appropriate. This is an exploration: can music be danced to,

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Mystery Sonatas

Friday 24 May 2019, 8.15pm

Oud-Katholieke Kerk ’t Huis te Poort, Dam 30, 3111 BD Schiedam, The Netherlands

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play a selection of Biber’s Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time.

The music

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704):
From the Joyful Mysteries:
The Annunciation

Dieterich Buxtehude (c.

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Mystery Sonatas

Sunday 19 May 2019, 6.30pm

St Saviour’s Church, Eton Road, South Hampstead, London, NW3 4SU

Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play a selection of Biber’s Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber’s time.

The music

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704):
From the Joyful Mysteries:
The Annunciation

Dieterich Buxtehude (c.

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Dance of the Nations

Saturday 11 May 2019, 7.15pm

London Festival of Baroque Music: St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

The Bach Players join hands with Ricardo Barros’s Mercurius Company to present a concert that embodies the European idea in music and dance. Musicians and dancers have always travelled, both in mind and in body,

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A hop and step across the Channel: learn to dance a Gavotte and a Menuet with Ricardo Barros

Saturday 11 May 2019, 10.30am

London Festival of Baroque Music: St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

Follow English dancing master Mr Isaac’s footsteps and hop across the channel for a dancing ‘entente cordiale’. Learn contredanses in the two most popular forms of the Baroque period: the gavotte ‘La Bonne Amitié’ by Feuillet (1706) and the ‘Menuet Anglois’ by Lorin (1698).

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Dance of the Nations

Thursday 9 May 2019, 7.30pm

The Garage, 14 Chapel Field North, Norwich NR2 1NY

The Bach Players join hands with Ricardo Barros to present a concert that embodies the European idea in music and dance. Artists have always travelled and this programme will take you on a journey across the continent.

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The Seven Last Words

Sunday 31 March 2019, 5.00pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

In the approach to Easter, The Bach Players perform Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words in the version for string quartet. Haydn’s composition was extraordinarily popular in his own time; following the original composition for full orchestra, he wrote the chamber version and then another for orchestra and choir.

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The Seven Last Words

Saturday 30 March 2019, 7.30pm

St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB

In the approach to Easter, The Bach Players perform Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words in the version for string quartet. Haydn’s composition was extraordinarily popular in his own time; following the original composition for full orchestra,

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Biber: the Joyful Mysteries

Sunday 9 December 2018, 5.00pm

St Swithin’s Church, Clunbury, Shropshire SY7 0HG

In the days leading up to Christmas, Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform the first five of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704). In these sonatas, Biber’s highly descriptive music addresses and describes the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it.

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A musical offering

Saturday 20 October 2018, 8.15pm

Paaskerk Baarn, Oude Utrechtseweg 4a, 3743 KN Baarn, The Netherlands

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,

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A musical offering

Thursday 18 October 2018, 7.30pm

St John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,

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A musical offering

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 7.30pm

Dorset County Museum Concert Society: St Mary’s Church, Edward Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2HJ

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons.

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A musical offering: the art of eloquence

Sunday 14 October 2018, 3.00pm

Little Missenden Festival: Church of St John the Baptist, Little Missenden, Amersham, Bucks HP7 0RA

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that looks both back to the tradition in which he worked and forwards to the music of his sons.

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A musical offering

Saturday 13 October 2018, 7.30pm

Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude,

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A musical offering: the art of eloquence

Thursday 11 October 2018, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that looks both back to the tradition in which he worked and forwards to the music of his sons. We play this dazzling piece in the context of music by Bach’s esteemed elders: Buxtehude and Pachelbel

The music

Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706): Canon in D major

Johann Pachelbel: Suite in F sharp minor

Dieterich Buxtehude (c.

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Couperin: l’Art de la Danse

Sunday 2 September 2018, 3.00pm

Utrecht Early Music Festival: Hertzzaal Tivoli Vredenburg, Vredenburgkade 11, 3511 WC Utrecht

We present a variety of François Couperin’s instrumental compositions in both the Italian and French styles: formal dances and character pieces, sonatas and harpsichord solo pieces. Our dancers will dance where appropriate. This is an exploration: can music be danced to,

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Italy versus France

Thursday 5 July 2018, 7.00pm

Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT

Italian or French? In the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, two national musical styles were seen as opposing and in contest, though composers increasingly brought them together. This concert brings the styles to life in works by some of the brilliant composers of the times: Corelli,

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Italy versus France

Wednesday 4 July 2018, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Italian or French? In the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, two national musical styles were seen as opposing and in contest, though composers increasingly brought them together. This concert brings the styles to life in works by some of the brilliant composers of the times: Corelli,

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Pour le souper du roi

Sunday 13 May 2018, 3.00pm

London Festival of Baroque Music: St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, 119 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV and Louis XV. The featured composers were among their favourites, allowed into the inner circle of the king and given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private chambers.

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Biber: the Glorious Mysteries

Saturday 12 May 2018, 7.30pm

St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB

The third of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic’s, and in the appropriate liturgical season.

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Stabat Mater

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 7.30pm

Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA

Boccherini’s Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos;

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Stabat Mater

Saturday 10 March 2018, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

Boccherini’s Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos; interspersed will be movements from Haydn’s The Seven Last Words.

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Stabat Mater

Thursday 8 March 2018, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Boccherini’s Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos; interspersed will be movements from Haydn’s The Seven Last Words.

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Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries

Saturday 24 February 2018, 7.30pm

St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB

The second of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic’s, and in the appropriate liturgical season.

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Biber: the Joyful Mysteries

Saturday 2 December 2017, 7.30pm

St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB

The first of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic’s, and in the appropriate liturgical season.

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Sound the trumpet!

Sunday 22 October 2017, 5.00pm

Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF

To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice;

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The Food of Love

Saturday 14 October 2017, 7.45pm

Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew’s & St George’s West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA

Shakespeare’s plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed.

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Sound the trumpet!

Saturday 7 October 2017, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice;

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Sound the trumpet!

Thursday 5 October 2017, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. ‘Weichet nur betrübte Schatten’ is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice; ‘Jauchzet Gott’ gives virtuosic parts to solo soprano and trumpet.

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In the Company of Gods: music by François Couperin, Marin Marais, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Friday 7 July 2017, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

The court of Louis XIV did indeed become a parnassus – a source for some of the greatest music and poetry of the time. In this concert we focus on private music for the King, by Marin Marais,

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In the Company of Gods: music by François Couperin, Marin Marais, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Wednesday 5 July 2017, 7.00pm

Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT

The court of Louis XIV did indeed become a parnassus – a source for some of the greatest music and poetry of the time. In this concert we focus on private music for the King,

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Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts

Sunday 14 May 2017, 6.30pm

St Michael’s Church, Cobham Close, Battersea, London SW11 6SP

A feast of Jean Philippe Rameau: his Pièces de clavecin en concerts, with some shorter works by him and his contemporaries

The music

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764): Pièces de clavecin en concerts for harpsichord,

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Stabat Mater

Saturday 25 March 2017, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber

The music

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36): ‘Stabat Mater’

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto Madrigalesco in C minor

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Rosary Sonata 10,

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Stabat Mater

Thursday 9 March 2017, 7.30pm

Thursday 9 March, 7.30 pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber

The music

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36): ‘Stabat Mater’

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto Madrigalesco in C minor

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Rosary Sonata 10,

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Pour le souper du roi

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 7.30pm

Dorset County Museum Concert Society, Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.

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Pour le souper du roi

Sunday 12 February 2017, 6.30pm

St Michael’s Church, 
Cobham Close, Battersea
, London SW11 6SP

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.

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Christmas concert

Saturday 17 December 2016, 8.15pm

Paaskerk Baarn, Oude Utrechtseweg 4a, 3743 KN Baarn, The Netherlands

An anthology of seasonal music from Advent to Christmas, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and from all over Europe

The music

H.I.F. von Biber (1644–1704): ‘Annunciation’ from the Mystery sonatas

Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665): Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna

Claudio Merulo (1533–1604): Toccata ottava

Giacomo Carissimi (1605–74) ‘Salve salve puellule’

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713): Concerto Grosso in G minor,

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Handel’s Messiah: come & sing + concert

Saturday 3 December 2016, 7.00pm

Heath Street Choir (Joe Wagott, director)
with The Bach Players (Nicolette Moonen, leader)

Heath Street Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, London NW3 1DN

The Bach Players join Heath Street Choir in a come & sing day, leading to a concert performance of Handel’s Messiah in the evening.

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Coffee and cabbage

Sunday 9 October 2016, 5.00pm

Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF

Two of J.S. Bach’s loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations

The music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):

Brandenburg Concerto no.

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Coffee and cabbage

Saturday 8 October 2016, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

Two of J.S. Bach’s loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations

The music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 

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Coffee and cabbage

Thursday 6 October 2016, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Two of J.S. Bach’s loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations

The music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750):

Brandenburg Concerto no.

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Pour le souper du roi

Saturday 17 September 2016, 7.30pm

Totnes Early Music Society, St Mary’s Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.

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The Seasons

Sunday 21 August 2016, 7.30pm

Binham Priory, Binham, Norfolk NR21 0DQ

A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known,

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Pour le souper du roi

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 7.00pm

Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, Hampstead, London, NW3 6SP

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.

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Stabat Mater

Saturday 11 June 2016, 7.30pm

Music in Lyddington: St Andrew’s, Lyddington

In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber

The music

Giovanni Batista Pergolesi (1710–36): ‘Stabat Mater’

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Concerto Madrigalesco in C minor

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704): Sonata 10,

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The Food of Love

Saturday 4 June 2016, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

Shakespeare’s plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed. In this programme, music by Henry Purcell is placed alongside that of his predecessors,

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The Food of Love

Thursday 2 June 2016, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Shakespeare’s plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed. In this programme, music by Henry Purcell is placed alongside that of his predecessors,

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Laments for Passiontide

Saturday 5 March 2016, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

The lament became an established musical genre and in this concert we present examples of this expressive form over two centuries, from Italy and Austria. Perhaps the first example of the musical lament was Monteverdi’s ‘Lamento d’Arianna’: a five-part madrigal,

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Laments for Passiontide

Thursday 3 March 2016, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

The lament became an established musical genre and in this concert we present examples of this expressive form over two centuries, from Italy and Austria. Perhaps the first example of the musical lament was Monteverdi’s ‘Lamento d’Arianna’: a five-part madrigal,

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Bach’s library

Saturday 14 November 2015, 7.30pm

Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary’s Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF

A selection of pieces that J.S. Bach had in his library and which provide a context for his celebrated Orchestral Suite in B minor

The music

Johann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749): Ouverture no.

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Bach and before: music at St Thomas’s Leipzig

Saturday 31 October 2015, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

Music by three predecessors of J.S. Bach as Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig – Schein, Schelle, Kuhnau – and the first cantata that Bach composed for his new job there: the magnificent ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’ (BWV 75)

When Bach was given the post of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig he joined a long line of musicians in this position,

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Bach and before: music at St Thomas’s Leipzig

Thursday 29 October 2015, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

Music by three predecessors of J.S. Bach as Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig – Schein, Schelle, Kuhnau – and the first cantata that Bach composed for his new job there: the magnificent ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’ (BWV 75)

When Bach was given the post of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig he joined a long line of musicians in this position,

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Pour le souper du roi

Saturday 10 October 2015, 7.30pm

Finchcocks Musical Museum, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1HH

This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title ‘musicien pour la chambre du Roy’: their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms.

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The Seasons

Saturday 18 July 2015, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known,

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The Seasons

Thursday 16 July 2015, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known,

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Baroque in the summertime

Saturday 27 June 2015, 8.00pm

The Derwent Singers (Richard Roddis, conductor)
with The Bach Players (Nicolette Moonen, leader)

St Mary’s Church, Bridge Gate, Derby DE1 3AU

A concert featuring the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. The Missa Brevis in A major is a joyous and sparkling work,

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‘A wonder has appeared in Paris’: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Sunday 17 May 2015, 3.30pm

London Festival of Baroque Music: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN

Chamber music composed by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, including solo pieces for the harpsichord played by Béatrice Martin – in the exquisite surroundings of the Wallace Collection

The music

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729):

Trio Sonata in D major

Suite in D minor (from Pièces de clavecin)

Violin Sonata in F major

Suite in A minor (from Pièces de clavecin)

Trio Sonata in C minor

The musicians

(Nicolette Moonen violin,

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An Italian in Paris

Thursday 7 May 2015, 7.30pm

The Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, GU4 7RT

Works by the first composers in France to explore the Italian style, this concert features Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, celebrated in the year of her 350th anniversary. More than a mere ‘woman composer’ (though she was,

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A musical offering

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 7.30pm

Leamington Music: St Mary’s Church, Warwick

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.

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A grand tour of Europe

Saturday 21 March 2015, 7.30pm

Sevenoaks Music Club: Ship Theatre, Sevenoaks

Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’

The music

Nicola Matteis (c. 1670– c. 1715): Ground after the Scotch humour

Nicola Matteis: Suite in A minor

Christopher Simpson (c.

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A musical offering

Saturday 28 February 2015, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.

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Stabat Mater

Thursday 26 February 2015, 7.30pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, and the astonishing and rarely heard ‘Il pianto di Maria’ by Ferrandini, formerly attributed to Handel, together with two of Vivaldi’s Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro

The music

Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710–91): ‘Il pianto di Maria’ (formerly attributed to Handel)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Stabat Mater

Antonio Vivaldi: Suonata à 4 al Santo Sepolcro in E flat

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro in C minor

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto Madrigalesco in D minor

The musicians

(Sally Bruce-Payne alto,

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A musical offering

Friday 13 February 2015, 7.30pm

Cambridge Early Music: Cambridge

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.

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A Christmas present

Friday 12 December 2014, 7.30pm

Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba,

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A Christmas present

Wednesday 10 December 2014, 7.30pm

Chester Music Society, Chester

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Sonata no. 6 in D minor for violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Paris Quartet no.

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Sleepers awake!

Saturday 8 November 2014, 8.15pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

The Advent cantata ‘Wachet auf’ in the setting by J.S. Bach (BWV 140) and two versions by Dieterich Buxtehude, and chamber music by Buxtehude and Erlebach

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c.

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Sleepers awake!

Thursday 6 November 2014, 7.30pm

The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN

The Advent cantata ‘Wachet auf’ in the setting by J.S. Bach (BWV 140) and two versions by Dieterich Buxtehude, and chamber music by Buxtehude and Erlebach

The music

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707): Cantata ‘Wachet auf!’,

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A grand tour of Europe

Friday 10 October 2014, 7.30pm

Egremont, Cumbria

Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’

The music

Nicola Matteis (c. 1670– c. 1715): Ground after the Scotch humour
Nicola Matteis: Suite in A minor
Christopher Simpson (c.

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