À Portuguesa offers Iberian exoticism with a difference. In the Age of Enlightenment, Portuguese music shared the favours of certain English publishers with its Spanish neighbour and drank at the inexhaustible source of the Scarlatti sonatas. This constant exchange between Iberian chamber music and the eighteenth-century orchestra culminates in an orchestral arrangement of Boccherini’s famous Musica notturna, presented by Andreas Staier in total complicity with the Baroque orchestra of the Casa da Música de Porto.