An internationally renowned conductor, harpsichordist and pianist, Andreas Staier has built a fruitful partnership with the Baroque Orchestra that has already resulted in a disc and several concerts in Porto and on tour. In this new programme, we travel to 16th-century England, where a current of secular keyboard music was born. William Byrd was the main representative of the rich school of the virginal, one of the precursors of the piano. It was after hearing Byrd's music that Andreas Staier decided to start studying harpsichord. These works are interspersed with scores by Henry Purcell, the biggest name in English music in the following century, including pieces originally written for the theatre, but so brilliant that it became customary for them to be played independently. In the second part we jump to the final phase of the German Baroque, in which the brilliant music of Johann Sebastian Bach stood out. Andreas Staier will be the soloist in one of the first and best-known concertos for keyboard and string orchestra in history, commonly heard on piano but here performed on the keyboard instrument of the time, the harpsichord.