Chamber music concert with flute, violin, cello and harpsichord, featuring Vivaldi's Manchester Sonatas.
Manchester Baroque are playing at St Ann's Church on Saturday 12 June 2027, with the concert running from 19:30 to 21:45. It's a chamber music evening for flute, violin, cello and harpsichord, and the programme draws on the French and Italian chamber-music traditions of the Baroque era.
The Italian side of things is anchored by Vivaldi's Manchester Sonatas, which have a bit of a local story to them: they were discovered in the city's Central Library in 1973. Alongside those, there's a quartet for flute, violin, harpsichord and cello by Giuseppe Giordani. The French half of the bill brings together Rameau, Boismortier and Leclair's Deuxième Récréation de Musique, so you'll hear a fair bit of the French style alongside the Italian.
Manchester Baroque is a professional early-music ensemble based here in the city, led by Artistic Director Dr Pauline Nobes. They play music written roughly between 1600 and 1750 on period instruments, and they perform it in the style they believe it would have been heard at the time. The whole set is built around that same quartet of flute, violin, cello and harpsichord, so the same four instruments carry the evening from the Italian sonatas through to the French pieces.
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It's a Saturday night in the city centre, with the music starting at 19:30 and wrapping up around 21:45 at St Ann's Church.
