The Dutch composer and traveling virtuoso Johannes Scheck was one of the great virtuoso viola da gamba players of 17th c. Europe. This CD contains some of the most exciting and influential sonatas from his second published work: Tyd en Konst-Offningen op. 2, the first of his instrumental da gamba creations, (Amsterdam, 1688). Cuban‐born, Spain-based da gambist Lixsania Fernández plays six of these masterworks together with the ensemble she founded, Recondita Armonia.