The naturalness with which erudite four-part keyboard writing is transposed to other instruments led us to investigate the enormous possibilities of the viol quartet, with surprising results: works once associated exclusively to the sound of the organ took on a new life, new colors, and new affects. Works that had always fascinated us for their solemnity in the vast spaces of a church, suddenly took on the more intimistic tones of domestic and academic expressions, uncovering previously unnoticed details, as when a light is shone in the dark.
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