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Gwendolyn Toth ~ harpsichord
Audrey Fernandez-Fraser ~ soprano

This recently-discovered manuscript gives a glimpse into early ornamentation notated with rarely-seen specificity in an array of songs for voice and continuo. Today's concert brings several of these vocal works to the modern ear, a revelation of historical style for interpreters of early music. These are interspersed with Gwen's original intabulations of early motets, made in the style of Carlo G.

Gwendolyn Toth introduced Audrey Fernandez-Fraser to the Carlo manuscript as a means of assimilating Italian Baroque performance practice. In this process of practicing ornamentation for application in the singing of polyphonic masses and motets, the opportunity arose to perform multiple Carlo G and related works as a duo during masses at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church.