This summer, Manchester Baroque return with a richly varied programme spanning period brilliance, archival exploration and exhilarating live performance in breathtaking venues across the city. Featuring ceremonial grandeur, intimate chamber music and a vivid reconstruction of Manchester’s earliest concerts, the unmissable upcoming schedule offers three memorable encounters with the Baroque era.
On Sat 6 Jun, St Ann’s Church hosts Intimate Notes, a one-off chamber concert that showcases Manchester Baroque’s historical instruments amidst beautiful surroundings.
With flute, oboe, violin, cello and harpsichord played in close quarters, every contour and storied sound of the ensemble comes vividly alive across a programme featuring Vivaldi, Bach, Biber and Fischer.
Manchester Baroque’s summer season concludes on Sat 18 Jul with another journey into the city’s forgotten musical past at Hallé St Peter’s.
Based on original research by Pauline Nobes, this engrossing concert reconstructs a programme first performed in Manchester on 23 Jul 1745, with works by Handel, Corelli, Geminiani and others, resurrecting a lost repertoire in a time-hopping odyssey through local orchestral history.
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- Words:
- Wolf McFarlane
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- Thu 30 Apr 2026
The series opens at the stunning Hallé St Peter’s on Fri 29 May, with an evening of regal splendour created in collaboration with York University’s acclaimed choir, The 24.
Opening with Handel’s enduring Zadok the Priest, the programme includes the composer’s Coronation Anthems alongside the opulence of Music for the Royal Fireworks, as well as a selection of celebratory works of unbridled pageantry, blazing fanfare and sumptuous choral textures.