Baroque Influencers in France and Italy

In this chamber music concert featuring flute, violin, cello and harpsichord, Manchester Baroque explores Baroque composers who achieved notable successes in their time, and composed music which still enchants and delights three centuries later. The programme opens with a quartet for flute, violin, harpsichord and cello by Giuseppe Giordani, a composer who influenced the musical transition from the Baroque to Classical style.

The concert includes a special local connection in a performance of one of Vivaldi's 'Manchester Sonatas', which were only discovered in Manchester's Central Library in 1973. The programme also spotlights French chamber music with Rameau and Boismortier, ending with the charming and elegant Deuxième Récréation de Musique by Leclair.