In Romantic Guitar & Flute, with guitarist Oleg Timofeyev and flutist Jeffrey Cohan performing on authentic early 19th-century instruments on Thursday, June 9 at 7 p.m. at Brickworks.

The final 2016 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performance explores an emerging new early 19th century romanticism and the subsequent blossoming of guitar-flute repertoire by virtuosos on their evolving instruments. This golden age for the flute-guitar duo was brought into being in the early 1800s as the industrial revolution and a desire for such music by a new middle class gave rise to expressive trends less affected by stylistic constraints of the past, and significant changes in the tonal expectations of musical instruments, and a new type of virtuoso interaction between flutists and guitarists.

Along with Oleg Timofeyev’s guitar from the early 19th century, Jeffrey Cohan will play an eight-keyed flute made in London in 1820 of cocuswood or Jamaican ebony with silver ornamental rings and keys, made in London in 1820 by George Rudall with the help of George Willis. In 1821 Rudall joined with Rose to make Rudall & Rose flutes, which have found their way into the hands of some of today’s most well-known flutists playing traditional Irish music. The program will include a Nocturne by guitarist Francesco Molino (1775-1847), a Divertissement by flutist Gaspard Kummer (1795-1870), Serenades by violinist Joseph Kuffner (1776-1856) and guitarist Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) and virtuoso solos for flute and guitar. (Pictured above is guitar prodigy Giulio Regondi, ca. 1832)