Manchester Baroque concert with special guest Luke Challinor on the baryton, performing early Classical chamber works on period instruments.
Manchester Baroque are playing St Ann's Church on Saturday 27 February 2027, with Luke Challinor joining them on the baryton. The concert is called Intimate Notes: Going Galant, and it's built around an instrument you've almost certainly never seen in the flesh.
The baryton is a 17th-century bass string instrument that was already a rarity by the 18th century. It only had a brief revival because of Joseph Haydn, who wrote seventeen chamber works for it because his employer, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, was a passionate amateur player. The programme pairs three of those pieces with early Classical chamber works by Sammartini, Lidl and Breval, and Manchester Baroque perform the whole thing on period instruments.
If you're not familiar with the baryton, it's a bass string instrument with a set of sympathetic strings running alongside the fingerboard, which ring out when the main strings are played. It's a rare thing to hear in a live setting, so seeing it as the centrepiece of a night is the main draw here. The rest of the bill fills out the early Classical sound, with Sammartini, Lidl and Breval providing the chamber works that sit alongside Haydn's baryton pieces.
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It's a Saturday evening at St Ann's Church on Saint Ann Street, M2 7LF, running from 19:30 to 21:30. The baryton is the guest of honour, and the period instruments are what give the whole thing its particular sound.
