A hush settled over the room, as the first eerie notes of Italian composer Luigi Nono’s “Hay que caminar (sognando)” floated through the audience.

The piece, intended for two violins, was one of six different pieces played Sunday evening at the Church of the Good Shepherd for the first of a four-concert festival, Music from Land’s End. When translated, the title is, “There is no path, but you must walk (while dreaming)”. Festival coordinator and violinist Ariadne Daskalakis acknowledged the modern Nono piece was a bit of an unusual break between the bouncy movements of Mozart and Jean-Marie Leclair.

“That’s something I like to specialize in because I have worked with experts in both baroque and modern fields,” Daskalakis said. “They enhance each other when you can combine them. It makes it all the more interesting than it might be if you only listened to one or the other for a whole evening.”

Of the pieces played to the full house that evening, Daskalakis said the Nono was the one that provoked the most varied reactions from the audience.

“Some people thought the Nono was the hardest to listen to, but I thought the Brahms would be the hardest, because it is so dense,” Daskalakis said, referring to the piece the festival’s six musicians played as the finale. “It took the most energy from us. For us, it was a wonderful culmination of the program, because it was the first moment when we were all playing together.”

Daskalakis said she could not pick a favorite piece among the ones she played that night, because “usually, whatever piece you are working on becomes your favorite piece.”

“You work with it so intensively, and you live with it, and you struggle with it, and you take it apart,” Daskalakis said. “Every piece has its special place … and its own function. You appreciate them as independent works of art, but also as arcs within the program.”

Daskalakis said she and the five other musicians, who played to a full house, were “very pleased” with the turnout. She said she was especially thrilled to see the children who attended having a good time.

“The worst thing would be to have a child leave and say, ‘Well, I never want to do that again!’” Daskalakis said. “It’s about capturing their imaginations, and getting them excited about a possibility. That’s such a gift.”

The remaining Music from Land’s End concert schedule is as follows:

• July 30, 4 p.m. -- Wareham Free Library (benefit concert for the Wareham Free Library)
• July 31, 8 p.m. -- St. Gabriel’s Church, Marion
• Aug. 1, 5 p.m. -- Church of the Good Shepherd (benefit concert for Tobey Hospital)

For more information, visit the festival’s website, or use the site’s contact form. Admission is based on suggested donation.