Thereabouts

I do love the baroque and thereabouts and I love seeing commonalities with jazz improv and classical composition, diminished and cycles and the like.  It just goes to show the relationships of history and modernity, at least here in a European context.  CIMF was mostly more modern, especially MOSSO, so The Southern Concert was a pleasant and diverse interlude.  Lots of singing from Greta Claringbould with her lovely soprano voice accompanied several names I know but some I didn't.  Stephen Freeman and Lauren Davis and Clara Teniswood but theorbo (and guitar) from Shaun Ng and harpsichordist, Rosalind Halton, and Odette Bruinzeel, viola.  Newer names for me, I think some or all from out of town.  They played a quartet from Evaristo Dall-Abaco, a solo toccata from Alessandro Piccinini and two major vocal works, cantatas da camera, Giovanni Bononcini Ecco, Dorinda, il giorno and Scarlatti Olimpia.  Quite a quiet interlude in St Paul's, ignoring the traffic and the incipient sunlight, of course.  

The Southern Concert performed at St Paul's, Manuka.  SC comprised Greta Claringbould (soprano), Stephen Freeman and Lauren Davis (violins), Odette Bruinzeel (viola), Clara Teniswood (cello), Shaun Ng (theorbo, guitar) and Rosalind Halton (harpsichord).