Suite in G minor Tenor Recorder Solo Capriccio Secondo

Capriccio Secondo

Cleora Sat Beneath a Shade

ensemble playing

duets for a solo instrument and obbligato harpsichord

The contents of the volumes give us a good idea of the music that was heard during domestic performances in the Netherlands during the 17th century

Suite in G minor Tenor Recorder Solo Capriccio SecondoMarin Marais (31 May 1656, in Paris ? 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte Colombe for six months. In 1676 he was hired as a musician to the royal court of Versailles and was moderately successful there, being appointed in 1679 as ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole, a title he kept