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Details
St James's Church
197 Piccadilly
Piccadilly
London
W1J 9LL
England
Programme
Robert de Visée – Pièces de théorbe et de luth
Michel Blavet – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op.2
Fernando Sor – Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op.9
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Mauro Giuliani – Grande Serenade, Op 82
Performers
Yu-Wei Hu – baroque flute
Johan Löfving – theorbo
Flauguissimo Duo
Programme Note
A Salon Opera
During the 18th century, highly popular operas were often reproduced and performed at domestic settings. Fair ladies and gentlemen performed together for entertainment as well as a part of courtship, with the similar theatrical elements of love and death in the intimate salons.
Flauguissimo Duo presents flute and plucked string music of court dances and opera scenes from the 18th century, including pieces by de Visee, Blavet, Gluck, Sor and Giuliani, performed on both baroque and classical instruments.
