This gorgeous new recording features vocalist Fiona Gillespie and the baroque equivalent of a jazz rhythm section: guitar/theorbo (Paul Holmes Morton), harpsichord/organ (Elliott Figg), bassoon ...

Known for its distinctive combination of instruments – flute, violin, bassoon, viola da gamba/cello ... already performed at many of the leading Baroque and Early Music festivals and has won ...

French horn and bassoon) were written during the Classical period and composers still write for the combination. The use of harpsichord in the Baroque period limited the dynamic range of the continuo.