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Industry founded upon ardent love and insatiable enthusiasm for music must be united with constant and diligent inquiry, and mature reflection and understanding.

Johann Joachim Quantz (Versuch, 1752)

Elysium, or Zen and the Art of Early Music

Life, the universe and performance practice.

Some musings on the connections with Zen Buddhist philosophy and a brief discussion of Baldassare Castiglione’s decoro, sprezzatura and gracia.

Venice to Versailles - Program Notes

The title ‘Venice to Versailles’ evokes the idea of a journey or the movement from one place (or state) to another. The works recorded here certainly present an intriguing musical journey through the diversity of instrumental chamber music of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: sets of variations on vocal works and ground basses, dances, sonatas and suites from Italy and France.

The program notes for this CD cover the following topics:

Musical Quotations - Music and Performance Practice

Quotes about music and its performance from various sources (mainly 17th- and 18th-century).

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