April 1 & 2, 2017
Glorious music from the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice and the Imperial Court at Vienna performed on cornetto, dulcian, sackbut, recorder, lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, baroque violins, viola da gamba, spinetta, and harpsichord. Featuring cornetto virtuoso and theorbist Nathaniel Cox, Allen Hamrick, dulcian, Benjamin S. Bernard, sackbutt, Claire Smith Bermingham and Dan McCarthy, baroque violin, Vivian Barton Dozor, viola da gamba, John Armato and Daniel Boring, lute, theorbo, and baroque guitar, Benjamin T. Berman, harpsichord, Lewis R. Baratz, artistic director, spinetta, and recorder. Music of Dario Castello, Battista Riccio, Biagio Marini, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli, Antonio Bertali, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Tarquinio Merula, Philippus Van Wichel, and Nicolaes A Kempis.