A Gift for your Garden

Barber Lunchtime Concert 

Ensemble Hesperi
Mary-Jannet Leith recorders
Magdalena Loth-Hill baroque violin
Florence Petit baroque cello
Thomas Allery harpsichord

London-based period instrumental group, Ensemble Hesperi, bring the 18th century passion for botany to the stage with this mesmerising programme inspired by Telemann’s love of all things botanical and floral. In letters written to fellow composers Graun and Handel (each represented in this programme by one of their trio sonatas), Telemann described his love of plants, and is known to have written to friends to request specimens for his own collection. Declaring his passion for tulips, hyacinths and ranunculi, Telemann shared that he was especially fond of anemones, leaving James Oswald’s floral miniatures to provide the perfect bouquet fillers for this afternoon performance.

• Oswald ‘The Anemone’ and ‘The Hyacinth’ from Airs for the Spring
• Handel Trio Sonata in B minor, Op.2, No.1, HWV 386b
• Telemann Paris Quartet No. 3 in A, TWV 43:A1
• Telemann Trio Sonata in G minor, TWV 42:g9
• Graun Trio Sonata in D, WV Cv:XV:97

Doors open at 12:30.
Please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment.
Barber Lunchtime Concerts are open to all.