Violins go from baroque to Scandinavian folk

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Host Marco Werman introduces us to the latest work from the three violinists in Lodestar Trio. It’s an ensemble of musicians whose work revolves around classical, as well as, folk music from Norway and Sweden. But their latest work aims to fuse the two, as we’ll hear in their Scandinavian take on a Johann Sebastian Bach bourrée, a popular baroque pairs dance.

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