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Gail Archer, music director and organist of All Saints Episcopal Church in New York
City, is the director of the Music Progrnm at Barnard College, Columbia University
where she also conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She is a member of the music
history faculty at the Manhattan School of Music where she teaches the doctoral
seminar in historical performance practice and the undergraduate Baroque course in the
core curriculum. Both a performer and scholar, her translation and transcription of the
' Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi's Op. 3, Cantate, .ariette a una, due, et tre voci was
published i11 A-R Editions Recent Researches series in 1998.
Ms. Archer holds a DMA in organ performance from the Manhattan School of Music
and has studied organ with McNeil Robinson and James David Christie. Her most
recent recitals include King's Chapel, Boston; the Church of the Transfiguration, the
instrument collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bach Vespers at Holy
trinity Lutheran Church, in New York City; Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,
Brooklyn Heights for the Bach Anniversary, 2000 and St. Joseph's Basilica, San Jose,
California.

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Ricercar (1540)

G,irolamo Cavazzoni
c. 1525-1577

Magnificat Quarti Toni

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Durezze e Ligature
Capriccio sopra re, fa, mi, sol

Capriccio sopra ii cucho

Giovanni de Maque
c.1548-1614

Girolamo Frescobaldi
1583-1643

II Lamento
From: Cantate, ariette a una, due et tre voci, Op. 3

Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160

Barbara Strozzi
c.1619-1667
arranged by Gail Archer

Dietrich Buxtehude
1637-1707

Concerto in C-dur, BWV 594
Johann Sebastian Bach
nach dem Concerto D-Dur "Grosso Mogul"
1685-1750
(RV 208) fur Violine, Streicher und Basso continua von Antonio Vivaldi

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