' The birthplace of all the major musical forms of the baroque was Italy ... Its good fortune was to possess all the ingredients of successful music-making, hotly cultivated in a large number of Independent city-states.'
In the second of this series of 15 programmes, Christopher Hogwood traces the emergence and early development of the Trio-Sonata in early 17th-century Italy. This is illustrated In an excerpt from Monte-verdi's Scherzi Musicalt , Sonatas by Salamone Rossi , Giovanni Battista Buonamente , Giovanni Paolo Cima. Biaglo Marini and Francesco Turini , and a Canzona by Cavalli. ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Michael Laird (cornett) Monica Huggett (violin) Eleanor Sloan (violin) Anthony Pleeth (cello) Nigel North (theorbo) director CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (organ)