Corina Marti in Early Music Now’s Cabaret Baroque

Early Music Now has a knack for scouting ensembles with diverse instrumentation. In their season opener concert at St. Paul’s, they welcomed Cabaret Baroque, a trio of recorder, lute, and harpsichord. While one might look at that and think “Well, that combination makes sense for Baroque music,” I can’t recall, in my many years of concertgoing, hearing recorder or lute in a concert-length solo or chamber setting.

Because of the lack of familiarity, I encountered an issue as soon as the music began: the recorder, played by Corina Marti, appeared to be out of tune. Whether this was a period instrument set to a different tuning standard, or just the recorder’s natural tendency to drift, it took some getting used to. Still, Marti played with f

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