Intimate Notes - Going Galant

We are delighted to welcome special guest
Luke Challinor who brings his baryton,
a bass string instrument from the 17th century.
The instrument was already a rarity by the
18th century, however it enjoyed a brief
revival with Joseph Haydn’s astonishing 175
chamber music works for this instrument,
written because his employer, Prince Nikolaus
Esterházy, was a passionate amateur player
of the instrument. We perform three of these
delightful and elegant pieces alongside other
early Classical chamber works by Sammartini,
Lidl and Breval.