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) 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