The Queen's Closet - 'For the Chapel or the Table'

The Queen's Closet, a 17th-century period instrument orchestra, perform a colourful programme of early music with period strings, wind and percussion, which is as appropriate for a church as a celebratory dinner! Inspired by Schmelzer's Sacro-Profanus sonatae, and Biber's Sonatae Tam Aris, Quam Aulis Servientes.

Programme:

Steffani's Act 1 Sinfonia from Niobe, Vejvanovsky's Sonata Tribus Quadrantibus, Schmelzer's Serenata con altre arie, Biber's Sonata VII a Cinque and Rittler's Ciaccona a 7.