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A grand tour of Europe
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Saturday 21 March 2015, 7.30pm
Sevenoaks Music Club: Ship Theatre, Sevenoaks
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century ‘grand tour’
The music
Nicola Matteis (c. 1670– c. 1715): Ground after the Scotch humour
Nicola Matteis: Suite in A minor
Christopher Simpson (c. 1605–69): Divisions for Gamba
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713): Sonata
Antonio Bertali (c. 1605–69): Chaconne
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749): Chaconne
Marin Marais (1656–1728): Tableau de l’opération de la taille
Robert de Visée (1655–1732): Prélude
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729): Sonata
Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont de Paris
The musicians
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(Nicolette Moonen violin, Reiko Ichise viola da gamba, Lynda Sayce theorbo)