‘Musick for a while’
Join Manchester Baroque for our season opener, with a varied programme led from the violin, featuring some of the most popular Baroque composers. Concertos by Vivaldi, Handel and Bach are mixed with vocal items, with countertenor Francis Bamford.
Longstanding principal viola player, Alex Mitchell, brings the instrument into a deserved spotlight in Telemann’s charming viola concerto, with our leader Pauline Nobes taking centre stage in a radiant violin concerto from Vivaldi’s Op.3, as well as in Bach’s concerto for Violin and Oboe with oboist Joel Raymond.
Programme
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Concerto no.9 in D major (RV 230) from L’Estro Armonico, Op.3
Vivaldi “Sol da te mio dolce amore” from Orlando furioso (RV 728)
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) “Ombra mai fu” from Xerxes (HWV 40)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor (BWV 1060)
INTERVAL
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) Concerto for viola in G major (TWV 51:G9)
George Frideric Handel Sinfonia and Aria “Presti omai l’Egizia terra” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17)
Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Music for a While
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6/6 in G minor (HWV 324)
Soloists:
Francis Bamford – Countertenor
Pauline Nobes - Violin
Alex Mitchell - Viola
Joel Raymond - Oboe
Martyn Shaw - Flute