trill

Regency Baroque occupies its historical territory with the easy confidence of music that knows its heritage and has made peace with it. Strings drive the main melodic energy with the bright, slightly formal character of the baroque period, trills and ornaments are deployed with period-appropriate enthusiasm, and a harpsichord provides the harmonic foundation with that distinctive bright, plucking tone that immediately signals that we are somewhere between the 17th and early 19th centuries. The piece is uplifting and strident in the way that baroque music at its best always is – simultaneously cerebral and genuinely invigorating. It is, admittedly, also rather stereotypically British in the way that only actual baroque music can be.