Les Nations

Join us on a musical journey to enjoy Baroque music from around the world... From the delicacy and refinement of the French style to the more ornate and extravagant Italian music of Vivaldi.

PERFORMERS

Manchester Baroque - performing on period instruments
Pauline Nobes & James Woodrow - Violin
Alex Mitchell & Laura Robinson - Violas
Mark Baigent - Oboe
Mark Baigent & Laura Robinson - Recorders
David Hatcher - Viola da gamba
Paula Chateauneuf - Theorbo
David Francis - Harpsichord

PROGRAMME

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Suite from the Water Music HWV 350

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) - Trio Sonata Op.1 No.12 La Folia RV 63

Anon. - [Passacaglia] from MS Moderna, Archivo di Stato Busta IV/A

François Couperin (1668–1733) Sonata from ‘L’Espagnole’, Les Nations, Second Ordre

- Interval -

Georg Muffat (1653–1704) - Florilegium Secundum Fasciculus I. Nobilis Juventus

Jean-Philipp Rameau (1683–1764) - ‘L’Egyptienne, L’Enharmonique, La Poule’ from Nouvelle Suite de Pièces de Clavecin (1728)

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) - Concerto Polonois (TWV 43:g7)

Henry Purcell (1659–1695) - Entry Dance and Chaconne ‘Dance for a Chinese man and woman’ from The Fairy Queen