Manchester Baroque perform a programme of Baroque dance music with live dancing on stage by period dance specialists the Mercurius Company. From the delicacy and refinement of the French style to the more ornate and extravagant Italian music of Vivaldi, this will be an unforgettable experience - not to be missed!

Performers
Ricardo Barros and Kath Waters (dancers)
Martyn Shaw, baroque flute
Pauline Nobes & James Woodrow, baroque violin
Alex Mitchell, baroque viola
David Hatcher, viola da gamba
Paula Chateauneuf, theorbo
David Francis, harpsichord

Programme

BLOCK 1 – ENGLAND, FRANCE, ITALY
Handel, Couperin, Lully, Corelli, Campra
BLOCK 2 –IBERIA
Telemann, Lully, Scarlatti, Campra
- Interval -
BLOCK 3 – MIDDLE EASTERN
Rameau, Corrette, Telemann
CROSSING THE OCEAN
Vivaldi, Marais
BLOCK 4 – NEW WORLD
Rameau