Michael Nyman
An Eye for Optical Theory (from the score to The Draughtsman's Contract)

Henry Purcell
Ground in C minor ZD 221 Anonymous
Uppon la mi re

Henry Purcell
May Her Blest Example Chase (from Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind Z 331)

Chick Corea
Children’s Song No. 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
Fourteen Canons BWV 1087 (Selection)

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Sonata secunda in F major (from Sonatae unarum fidium)

Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata for two Violins and Basso continuo in D minor RV 63 Op. 1 No. 12 "La Follia"

Tarquinio Merula
Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna Anonymous
Follias Anonymous
Corne Yairds (Rowallen Lute Book) Anonymous
Greensleeves (The Division Flute) Anonymous
Black and Grey (The English Dancing Master)

Chick Corea
Children’s Song No. 4 Anonymous
Durham Ground Jean-Baptiste Lully
Chaconne (from Phaeton LWV 61)

What is often called a passacaglia, chaconne, or canon was known as a “ground” in Baroque England: a series of bass notes or harmonies that were constantly repeated and adorned in ever new variations over the course of a piece. Combining works by some of the greatest Baroque masters with music by Chick Corea and Michael Nyman, recorder virtuoso Stefan Temmingh and the ensemble Nuovo Aspetto have devised a program that explores playful connections across centuries with an improvisatory spirit.