98.7 WFMT’s Impromptu Previews New Comma Baroque’s The Twilight Kingdom: Waning of the Viol in Europe

Emmanuel Episcopal Church of La Grange‘s artists-in-residence New Comma Baroque return in a special program of rare gems from the twilight years of the viol: from well-known master Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach to lesser-known Johann Gottfried Mente and Christian Wilhelm Podbielski, to the so-called ‘last gambists’ Carl Friedrich Abel and Franz Xaver Hammer, join New Comma Baroque‘s Phillip Serna and Emily Katayama on a virtuosic exploration of late repertoire for the viola da gamba – including the Chicago premiere of a newly-discovered work by Abel found in Poland in 2016!