"Bass Desires!"

More than 150 years of Italian cello music, from just a lowly bass line to the magnificence of Vivaldi and elegance of classical Boccherini. The tantalising combinations of theorbo, harpsichord and cello contrast with light-hearted and schmaltzy mandolin sonatas and the famous Mozart keyboard variations on an exceedingly well known nursery rhyme.

Domenico Gabrielli

Cello sonata in A major

Giovanni Battista Degl‘Antonii

Ricercata Prima for solo cello

Biago Marini

Two sonatas for three bass instruments

Antonio Vivaldi

Mandolin sonata in G major

George Frideric Handel

Harpsichord Air and Variations

'The Harmonious Blacksmith'

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Sinfonia for cello and continuo

Luigi Boccherini

Cello sonata in A major

Nicola Matteis

Divisions on the 'Scotch Humour'

for mandolin and continuo

Adiego Guerra

Mandolin sonata in G major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Harpsichord Air and Variations

'Ah vous dirai - je, maman'

Antonio Vivaldi

Cello sonata No VIII in A minor