Fri 12 Jun 2026, St John's Church, Totnes
Devon Baroque presentsA Grand Tour, a musical evocation of a typical European tour undertaken by a well-to-do English family in the 18th century, starting and ending in London and visiting Paris, Venice, Rome and other European cities. A slide show will accompany music from the most famous composers of each stopping-off place, with descriptions from diaries and letters of the delights and agonies of travel before cars and trains. London - Handel: from the Water Music Suite no 3 in G, HWV 350 Amsterdam - Johannes Schenck: (Sonata for viola da gamba) Paris- Lully: Les Noces de Village (music for a "Mascarade Ridicule") Rome - Corelli: Trio Sonata from op 4 Venice - Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Cello 'all'inglese' RV 546 Salzburg - Biber: Sonata Representativa Hamburg - Telemann: Concerto di Camera, TWV 43:g3 Leipzig - JS Bach: Adagio BWV 968 for harpsichord London - Handel: from Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 Devon Baroque Chamber Ensemble: Sarah Humphrys, baroque oboe & recorders Persephone Gibbs, baroque violin Catherine Martin, baroque violin Gavin Kibble, viola da gamba Andrew Wilson-Dickson, harpsichord
