'Hark! the echoing air'

This delightful programme of music from France, England and Italy moves through a wide variety of styles and emotions, from Montéclair's tale of the tragic Dido to Rameau's description of a clucking chicken and the first ever published cello sonata.

Pietro Francesco Cavalli

Motet 'Cantate Domino'

Domenico Gabrielli

Cello sonata in G major

Claudio Monteverdi

Song 'Et é pur dunque vero'

Archangelo Corelli

Variations on La Follia for violin and continuo

Henry Purcell

Song 'Mad Bess'

Song 'Hark! the echoing air'

The Plaint 'O, let me Weep'

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

Cantata 'La Mort de Didon'

Jean - Philippe Rameau

Three harpsichord pieces:

Les Sauvages

L'Enharmonique

La Poule

Thomas Augustine Arne

Air 'Gentle swain! Hither turn thee'

George Frideric Handel

German aria 'Flammende Rose'