Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703) pondered the difference between dreaming and waking in his personal diary, which the Secretary of State of the Royal Navy and passionate amateur musician kept during the years 1660 -1669. He played the lute and noted 1668, that he had begun to learn the recorder. This disc is a collection of musical treasures between dream immersion and joie de vivre from the multinational melting pot of baroque London.