With the ease and accessibility of the recorded sound, it is hard for many people to imagine what music was like before the phonograph.

This is the challenge that Basically Baroque faces every performance — trying to imitate sounds nearly three centuries old.

For the past 23 years, Kevin Schilling (oboe, baroque oboe, bassoon) and Lynn Ziegler (organ, harpsichord) have been performing concerts together.

However, the duo didn’t have a name until recently. The name — Basically Baroque — describes exactly what Schilling and Ziegler play, with a few added bonuses.

Basically Baroque concentrates on the music and the instruments from the baroque time period and tries to recreate these sounds for audiences. The duo, however, often times needs the help of other musicians.

Two musicians who have recently performed with Basically Baroque are baroque flutist Rebecca Stur, a graduate of Grinnell College, and Mary Pshonik, an Iowa State graduate and member of the Des Moines Symphony and the Phoenix Quartet.

This year baritone James Tener will join the duo. Tener teaches voice lessons at ISU and maintains a private teaching studio in Des Moines.

Tener has also performed throughout Iowa and is most notable for his two performances with the Des Moines Symphony in 1997.

“I’m most excited about having [Tener] perform with us,” Schilling said.

By including Tener, an interesting perspective has been added to the performance. Tener will delight the audience with his renditions of the music of Bach and Telemann.

“Playing the music of Bach has always been exciting to me and it’s even more natural and enjoyable on the baroque oboe because it gives it the expression it calls for,” Schilling said. “For me, keeping control of the oboe because the reed is so unpredictable is the most challenging thing.”

The only problem the duo has experienced after adding Tener is coping with rehearsal challenges. Because of the distance between Tener and Schilling and Zeigler, it is hard for the group to rehearse together. “We practiced together a couple long Saturdays,” Schilling said. He added that other performers probably have their own performing challenges as well.

The group’s next performance will also feature Pshonik, who will be performing a cello solo for her first time.

“This is exciting, because even though people may recognize the song, [Pshonik] plays more stylistically authentic than what others are accustomed to,” Schilling said.

Basically Baroque will be held Sunday in the Music Hall Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. The performance is a part of the 1997-98 faculty series and is free and open to the public.