William Shield Festival 2025 - Concert Royal: The French Connection

Name: William Shield Festival 2025 - Concert Royal: The French Connection
Start: 2025-10-18T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-18T14:15:00+01:00
Location: Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:15 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle | Newcastle upon Tyne, EN

Concert Royal in a Georgian Drawing Room: The French Connection. A programme of mid 18th century chamber music.
About this Event

William Shield Festival 2025 - Concert Royal: The French Connection

Peter Harrison, baroque flute, Rachel Gray, baroque ‘cello and viola da gamba, and John Treherne, harpsichord, return to the Festival with a varied programme of mid-eighteenth century chamber music.

Highly decorated French pieces are contrasted with English and German music. In her debut on the instrument, Rachel Gray will contribute a viola da gamba sonata by Carl Friedrich Abel.