Manchester Baroque perform a programme of Baroque dance music with live dancing on stage by the Mercurius Dance Company. From the delicacy and refinement of the French style to the more ornate and extravagant Italian music of Vivaldi, this will be an unforgettable experience - not to be missed!
We’re very pleased to acknowledge generous support from the Continuo Foundation for this concert.
PERFORMERS
Manchester Baroque - performing on period instruments
Martyn Shaw - Flute
Pauline Nobes & James Woodrow - Violin
Alex Mitchell - Viola
David Hatcher - Viola da gamba
Paula Chateauneuf - Theorbo
David Francis - Harpsichord
The Mercurius Dance Company
Ricardo Barros
Kath Waters
PROGRAMME
England
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Suite from the Water Music
Handel - Queen Caroline March from Scipione
(choreography by Anthony L’Abbé, 1728)
France
François Couperin (1668–1733) - Grande Ritornele from Apotheose de Corelli
Anon - Courante La Bocannes (Anon. choreography, 17th-century) Jean-Baptise Lully (1632–1687) Passacaglia from Persée (choreography by Guillaume Pécour, 1704)
Italy
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) - Ciacona, Op.2 No.12
André Campra (1660–1744) - Forlana from L’Europe Galante (choreography by Pécour, 1700)
Spain
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) - Overture from Burlesque de Quixotte Lully - Sarabande Espagnole pour homme from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Campra - Entrée pour les Espagnols from Europe Galante Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) - Sonata
Portugal
Telemann - Les Portugais from Les Nations, TWV 55:B5 (choreography by Ricardo Barros, 2019)
INTERVAL
Middle Eastern
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Les Fleurs from Les Indes Galantes Scene V Rameau - Deux Entrées des Persans from Les Indes Galantes (choreography by Ricardo Barros, 2019) Michel Corrette (1707–1795) - Concerto Comique Op. 8 No. 9 ‘La Turque et La Confession’ Telemann - Les Turcs from Les Nations TWV 55:B5
Crossing The Ocean
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) - Folia (choreography by Feuillet, 1700) Marin Marais (1656-1728) - Entrée des Matelots from Alcyone (choreography by Feuillet, 1706)
New World
Rameau - Entrèe des Esclaves Africains Rameau - Danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix (Les Sauvages) from Les Indes Galantes (choreography by Ricardo Barros, 2022)