Dance of the Nations - With the Mercurius Company
Supported by the Continuo Foundation
Manchester Baroque perform a programme of Baroque dance music with live dancing on stage by period dance specialists Ricardo Barros and Kath Waters. 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!
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 & Sarabande pour femme from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (choreography by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, 1700)
Campra - Entrée pour les Espagnols from Europe Galante
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) – Sonata for solo harpsichord in D major (K.492)
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 - Rigadons I & II, Menuets 1 &2, Tambourins I & II from Les Indes Galantes
Rameau - Danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix from Les Indes Galantes (choreography by Ricardo Barros, 2022)
Manchester Baroque - performing on period instruments
Pauline Nobes and James Woodrow - Violin
Laura Robinson - Viola & Recorder
Martyn Shaw - Flute
Paula Chateauneuf - Theorbo
David Hatcher - Viola da gamba
David Francis - Harpsichord
Mercurius Company
Ricardo Barros and Kath Waters - Dancers
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