(Domenico Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Arcangelo Corelli, Giovanni Bononcini, and François Couperin)
Cecilia Con Amici (Holland)
Sayuri Yamagata – violin Lucia Swarts – cello Siebe Henstra – harpsichord
Cecilia Bernardini – violin, artistic director
 
On August the 2nd in the Rudolph Gallery of the Prague Castle, the ranks of the Archangels will grow with the assistance of St. Cecilia, the patroness of musicians. Symbolically, this will occur on the holiday of Our Lady Queen of Angels. Ss. Michael, Rafael, and Gabriel will be joined by Arcangelo Corelli, whose important anniversary is celebrated this year. Apart from Corelli’s masterpieces, the quartet of players from the world-renowned Netherlands Bach Society will introduce music by his peers who were no lesser masters of the trio sonata style: Lelio Colista, Georg Friedrich Haendel, and Giovanni Battista Bononcini... Another intercessor will be, of course, Francois Couperin who called for such an occasion as tonight’s celebration of Corelli’s legacy in his famous L´Apothéose de Corelli.