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  • Fit As a Fiddle
    Sarah Huebsch Schilling
    This week on Harmonia: virtuoso music for the violin, as we compare baroque-era Italian- and French-styles. Our featured release is Regina Angelorum: Hans Leo Hassler.
  • Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst's depiction of "King David Playing the Harp," looking toward the heavens, 1622.
    Tune Your Harps
    Sarah Huebsch Schilling
    On this edition of Harmonia, we tune up strings of the violin, cello, viola da gamba, and lute, with music in scordatura, or alternate tunings, of strange and familiar instruments.