The Nightingale in Love

Combining buoyant dance rhythms, sonorous textures and beguiling melodies, the contrasting styles of French and Italian music are featured in this programme as seen through the eyes of Bach and his contemporaries. Framing his captivating Overture in the French Style, and Concerto in the Italian Style will be colourful descriptive music by Couperin referencing love, including Le Rossignol en amour; along with sonatas by Scarlatti which betray their operatic origins with lush harmonies, seductive melodies and infectious rhythms.

Programme:

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Italian Concerto BWV 971

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Sonatas in B minor Kk197/87, A major Kk208/209 & G major Kk144/427

Interval

François Couperin (1668-1733) Ordre XIV

Le Rossignol-en-amour; Double du Rossignol

La Linote-éfarouchée, Les Fauvétes Plaintives

Le Rossignol-Vainqueur

J.S. Bach French Overture  BWV 831

David Francis - Harpsichord