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The sextet that performed (a pair each of violins and violas, and a continuo pairing of cello and harpsichord) offered a mixed baroque program in which three string sonatas by Tomaso Albinoni were heard alongside concertos and sonatas by Bach and Vivaldi, and by the less-encountered Georg Muffat and Henricus Albicastro.

Music review: Ensemble 415 at Library of Congress Post 2010

The evening ended with a suite arranged by Biondi entitled “Les Nations” with brief snippets of pieces by Telemann, Biber, Muffat, Galuppi, Campra, and Destouches, intended to represent various ethnic groups such as the Danish, English, Spanish and Chinese.

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There was also some ensemble raggedness at the edges, perfect for the sighs in the Campra "Suite" and the bluesy harmonies of the Muffat sonata but not as welcome for the playfulness of the Vivaldi concertos or the alacrity of Guillemain's "Symphony in Italian Style."

In performance: Washington Early Music Festival (I) 2010

The evening ended with a suite arranged by Biondi entitled “Les Nations” with brief snippets of pieces by Telemann, Biber, Muffat, Galuppi, Campra, and Destouches, intended to represent various ethnic groups such as the Danish, English, Spanish and Chinese.

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Throughout a program that included music by Lully, Campra, Muffat, Guillemain, Aubert and, of course, Vivaldi, the ensemble's sound had a warm woodiness about it -- the product of gut strings and more loosely strung baroque bows -- that projected intimacy and a French-friendly personal quality.

In performance: Washington Early Music Festival (I) 2010

Buxtehude, Froberger, Muffat the elder, Pachelbel and probably Johann

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At this concert, the group offers works by works by Biber, Purcell and Muffat.

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You could not say as much for the strings and woodwinds, who played tepidly and with alarming ensemble imprecision in Muffat's Suite No. 4 "Impatienta," from "Florilegium Primum", and with greater energy, offset by fleeting disunity, in Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 4.

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And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid.

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That means works by Muffat, Bach, Handel and Rameau, with the eminent violinist Manfredo Kraemer as concertmaster.

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