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| Composer | Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704) |
| Period | Baroque |
| Work type | Instrumental |
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L'Arpeggiata: Inspired by the Baroque
Though they play Baroque music, the ensemble L’Arpeggiata is more like a jazz band than a traditional orchestra. Anchored by a continuo (rhythm section?) led by artistic director and theorbist Christina Pluhar, they are joined by various other instrumentalists, singers, and even dancers, fitting each of their projects.
St. John's Smith Square, Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner/ Debretzeni
Bach, Biber, St. John's Smith Square. Clever juxtapositions, and they worked. The programmer of this concert - by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Solists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner - had a neat thought, to place Bach's six Motets (BWV 225-230) into the former church in SW1. The building and the motets date from the same decade, the 1720's.