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We're sampling instrumental music from various sources this week, including music for cornetto and keyboard from the Italian duo Seicento Stravagante, from their 2023 release. We'll also follow composer Francesco Geminiani from his home in Italy to Dublin, where he settled in 1733. We'll hear selections from Geminiani and the Celtic Earth, a 2017 recording from Les Basses Réunies.

  • Francesco Spinacino- Ricercar 9- Hopkinson Smith, lute     
  • Joan Ambrosio Dalza- Calata ala spagnola- Hopkinson Smith, lute   
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi- Canzon La Lucchesina- Seicento Stravagante    
  • Dario Castello- Sonata No. 1- Seicento Stravagante    
  • Francesco Rognoni Taeggio- Pulchra es, anima mea- Seicento Stravagante    
  • Biagio Marini- Sonata Op. 8 No. 2- Seicento Stravagante    
  • Francesco Geminiani- Concerto Grosso in D minor 'La Follia'- Freiburg Baroque Orchestra      
  • Francesco Geminiani- Violin Sonata in E minor- Les Basses Réunies      
  • James Oswald- The Bonny Boat Man- Les Basses Réunies     
  • Francesco Geminiani- Sleepy Body- Les Basses Réunies      
  • James Oswald- Te Dauntin Me- Les Basses Réunies
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