Lully: Entrée d'Apollon

The main works on this CD are a sonata by de Visée for theorbo and a cello sonata by Barrière.

Esteban La Rotta is a specialist in early plucked instruments.

Jivko Georgiev specialises in historically-informed performance.

From its earliest beginnings, the five-course Baroque guitar was associated – for better or worse – with dance music, becoming the sensuous younger cousin of the lute or vihuela. In this mélange of music from seventeenth-century France, some of it recorded for the first time, and performed on baroque guitars including an original historic instrument from the Edinburgh University

Collection of Historic Instruments, Gordon Ferries weaves a tapestry of sound that is at once elegant, earthy, and utterly timeless.