Baroque Pleasures: Program with Recorder, Harp and Viola da Gamba

Maurice Steger is known for his colourful and complex programmes and so the collaboration with Céline Pasche and Hille Perl and the instrumentation of recorder, harp and viola da gamba seems as unusual as it is natural. The trio presents well-known and rarely heard treasures of the Baroque in new ways, but without sacrificing any of the beloved energy and sensitivity.

Maurice Steger | Recorder
Céline Pasche | Baroque Harp & Recorder
Hille Perl | Viola da Gamba

Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonatine A minor for recorder & b.c. TWV 41:a4

A Jacobean Masque
(compiled from Jacobean Masque-Dances and Divisions by Robert Johnson, Giovanni Coperario and Sir Nicolas le Strange and the Fluyten Lust-hof, 1644)
The Temple Anticke
Gray’s Inn or Coperaree
Henry Purcell
Two in One upon a Ground for two recorders and basso ostinato (from Dioclesian, Z. 627, London 1690)
The Furies

Georg Friedrich Handel
Ouverture and Menuet from the Opera Rodelinda (arranged for solo harp by John Parry (ca. 1710-1782), from the Walsh manuscript)

Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata G major op. 5 No. 11 for recorder & b.c.
Preludio. Adagio | Allegro | Adagio | Vivace | Gavotta. Allegro
with ornamentation by Pietro Castrucci & Matthew Dubourg

Jacob van Eyck
The English Nightingale (from the Fluyten Lust hof, Utrecht, c. 1644)
Gottfried Finger
A Ground for recorder & b.c.

Canzoni di Andrea Falconiero
Passacalle | La bella Marchesetta (Napoli around 1620)

Marco Uccellini
Aria Quinta sopra la Bergamasca for two recorders and basso ostinato
(from Sonate arie et correnti a 2 e 3 per sonare con diversi instromenti, Venice 1642)

Christopher Simpson
Prelude und Divisions upon a Ground in e

Arcangelo Corelli
Variations on the old Spanish Sarabande La Follia per flauto e basso continuo, Sonata No. 12, op. 5 (London 1702)