From China with Love:

musical chinoiseries in 17th- and 18th- century Europe

Exotic decorations on cabinets, porcelain vessels, and embroideries imported from China inspired popular design trend in Baroque Europe, one reflected in various objects in the Rienzi collection and on the harpsichord featured on this program. Musical selections by Teodorico Pedrini, Henry Purcell, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, and Christoph Willibald Gluck illustrate how composers of this time created equally lavish sounding textures, Preceding the concert harpsichordist Mario Aschauer and MFAH curator Misty Flores discuss European impressions of China during the Baroque age.