See "U" Sunday!

This Sunday at 6pm is our "U" concert and it is the 19th concert!
For this letter, we have a shorter concert. Just an hour, to enjoy time before (or after) dinner.
It's a mostly Uccellini program, as he wrote very lovely early baroque music for strings; violin sonatas and multiple violin pieces with harpsichord and continuo (cello, this time). But there are 3 other composers we have found!
Usiglio we wrote about already. And Utrecht and Utendal; both are in the penultimate volume of Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Amazing to see how we have worked our way through Groves!
Heinrich Utrecht has a slim listing. His birthdate is unknown, death only guessed at (1633 or later) but he did work as an instrumentalist, composer and "castle organist" for Duke Christian of Brunswick-Lüneburg at Celle. There are extant 2 collections of suites of stylized dances for small ensembles. We chose a Paduana.
Utendal, who was born in the Netherlands, went in 1564 to work as an alto in the court choir for Archduke Ferdinand at Prague. He became deputy Kapellmeister in 1572 and kept that position for the rest of his life. He wrote both sacred and secular music. And once again we are stealing a choral piece for our own use. Because it is beautiful.....