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This will not be Monteverdi as we have heard him; there will be nary a period instrument in sight, neither a harpsichord nor a sackbut, a theorbo nor a cornett.

Otherwise, though, Muhly was left to translate the material into his own compositional language, which he had come to in dialogue with early music and even early instruments; among his published scores is a “Berceuse With Seven Variations” for solo theorbo.

A harpsichord, a theorbo and a viola da gamba sound alongside an upright piano and an electric organ.

Enjoy concert pieces by Vivaldi, Handel and Telemann and dance music from the court of King Louis XIV, featuring the baroque cello, viol, theorbo and harpsichord.

Anthony Roth Costanzo, the celebrated countertenor who will star in Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten” at the Metropolitan Opera in November but was in this instance playing the butler, began picking up the pieces and placing them on a silver tray — all while singing John Dowland’s mournful 1605 work “In Darkness Let Me Dwell” to live theorbo accompaniment.