Vivaldi’s vibrant Concerto for Strings in G minor opens the programme, before we are transported to the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks, the setting for Shaw’s Plan & Elevation, with its flower gardens, orangery, stone paths, hornbeam and beech trees. A commission by the former owners of that historic estate, now owned by Harvard University, gave us Stravinsky’s vibrant, neoclassical Concerto in E flat major.

In his Viola Concerto, Telemann weaves a story for the viola to tell, starting with a noble sarabande and ending with a spirited dance. Three soloists – flute, violin and harpsichord – feature in Bach’s superlative Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, with the harpsichordist taking centre stage in a dazzling cadenza.