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We intentionally chose music that was written in some of the truly unique forms that were invented and refined during the baroque era. Like the canonic sonatas of Telemann and the trio sonata by Antonio Lotti for flute, guitar and cello. It may also delight you, as it did us, to find that many of the musicians whose pieces we recorded knew one another, either personally or through the music they had written. -- It is a long-standing tradition for musicians of all kinds to transcribe and perform music composed for instruments different from the ones that they typically play. I mention this here because the modern classical guitar as we know it didn't exist at the time that the compositions on this CD were written. While instruments similar to the modern guitar did exist during the baroque era and were available in a wide variety of models and styles, none among them were as popular as the harpsichord. This plucked keyboard was often the instrument of choice for accompaniment in oratorios or operas, and noted composers of that time wrote and performed a large number of solo works for it. Modern guitars, both louder and more reliably in tune than their forerunners, are able to play much of the beautiful and challenging music that was originally written for the harpsichord during the baroque era.