Suspend reality for an hour, and travel with us through the night, a place of wonder and creativity where different worlds, centuries and the musical influences of Bach, Handel, Telemann and Montéclair collide.

Central to this night is Nitin Sawhney’s “Early Transitions” which in Nitin’s own words explores “connections between Eastern and Western classical ideas with particular reference to my love of Baroque music, Indian classical raga and mathematical interactions through the taal system, phrasing and diatonic expansion”. A real chance to dream...

Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
Ciaccona in C major op. 12 no. 20

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)
Ciacona in C major from “Der Nachtwächer”

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Modéré from Paris Quartet No. 12 in E minor TWV:43e4

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737)
Sommeil from Sérénade Ou Concert

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata in c minor BWV 526

Nitin Sawhney b. 1964
“Early Transitions”

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Larghetto; Allegro; [from Organ Concerto in F Major HWV 296 ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’]; Adagio; Allegro; Minuet [from Trio Sonata in F major op. 5 no. 6 HWV 401]

François Couperin (1668-1733)
Le Réveil-Matin (The Alarm Clock)

Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
Ciaccona in C major op. 12 no. 20