A Lautenwerck Christmas: Strangely Familiar Music for the Holidays

On the final Sunday of Advent, step back from the hustle and bustle of the season for a time of meditation and reflection as harpsichordist David Buice plays carol settings by composers from the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Twentieth Centuries on the gut-strung lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) by master builder Anden Houben.

The sound of the lautenwerck has been described as "magical" and "deeply relaxing". From the performer: "Should the listener become 'lost' in the music, he or she may well be experiencing that which early listeners experienced: The opening of a portal to another way of listening, and another way of being. Such was its use by, and such was the intent of, the early musicians and their listeners, and so here, the intent of this program."