Two chaconnes from Jean-Philippe Rameau's operas "Les Indes Galantes" and "Castor et Pollux" themselves will be worth the price of admission! Add to them a chaconne for flute, oboe and basso continuo by François Couperin; Henry Purcell's Chaconne/Passacaglia in G minor for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo; Dieterich Buxtehude's Organ Ciaccona in E minor arranged for harpsichord, 'cello and double bass; Monteverdi's ciaccona, "Zefiro torna", for countertenor, oboe and basso continuo; Girolamo Frescobaldi's "Cento Partite sopra Passacagli" (solo harpsichord) from 1637; and, J. S. Bach's Organ Passacaglia in C minor arranged for flute, oboe, string quintet and harpsichord. HarpsiLaine performs two early English keyboard predecessors of this variation dance form based on an inexorable, reiterated harmonic pattern: "My Lady Carey's Dompe" (Anonymous) and Hugh Aston's "Hornepype", both from the early 16th century. "...and more inexorable far/ Than empty tigers or the roaring sea." Shakespeare For more program information, call: 212.280.1086.