Music includes unaccompanied works for solo violin by Bach, Telemann (Bach's contemporary), and Biber (an important influence on Bach's unaccompanied works). These are balanced with poetry written at a similar time to the music, 18th Century English poets Alexander Pope, William Broome and Thomas Grey. Themes of these poems include the nature of art, to follow or not to follow the rules, a country torn apart, a cat's longing for goldfish, and the art of nature.

In the middle of an otherwise Baroque programme, is a contemporary text piece by James Hewitt, Tower of Babel. The title of this piece comes from the biblical story, in which the Babylonians try to be great, and build a tower reaching to the heavens, which is punished by making the builders speak different languages, so the structure could not be finished. In one sense, the piece is a musical composition, simply about the rhythm and colour of words, without an apparent meaning. But, beneath an abstract 'musical' approach to text, and elements of absurdity, there is a darker progression following man's tendency towards separation and self destruction, but always with a hope of renewal at the end.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) "...Some beauties yet, no precepts can declare", from An Essay on Criticism, Part I Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Allemanda, from Partia 2da a Violino Solo senza Basso (BWV 1004)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Chorus of Athenians Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Allegro - Presto - Allegro – Presto, from Fantasie V per il Violino senza Basso (TWV 40:18)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Siciliana, from Fantasie IX per il Violino senza Basso (TWV 40:22)

James Hewitt (1983) Tower of Babel (Sonata for Solo Voice)

William Broome (1689-1745) The Rose-Bud Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) Passagalia, from Rosenkranz-Sonaten, The Guardian Angel