Imagine if Vivaldi was a folk-fiddler, Purcell a protest-singer, or Bach a techno-geek
Baroque at the Edge goes digital for 2021! All concerts and talks across the festival will be broadcast online without an in-person audience.
Save with the Baroque at the Edge Festival Pass, giving you access to all of the online concerts and zoom talks across the weekend for just £55.
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Thursday 7 January 4pm Vivien Ellis folksinger Explore the streets and open spaces surrounding our venue, LSO St Luke’s, in a virtual historical tour lent musical colour by some of the popular ballads of years gone by. Friday 8 January 4pm Art of Moog A practical showing of the immense capabilities of the synthesizer, the electronic instrument synonymous with ‘80s pop and famous in the 1960s for its role in ‘Switched on Bach’. Friday 8 January 7.30pm Sean Shibe guitar, lute The stylish virtuoso of the classical guitar mixes dance-based compositions by 20th-century French figures such as Ravel and Poulenc with real dance tunes from the 1600s, played on the guitar’s ancestor, the lute. Saturday 9 January 1pm Eliza Haskins recorder Two alumni of the 2020 BBC Young Musician competition join forces to explore music from the past and present, ranging from 17th-century Holland to some of their own arrangements and personal re-imaginings. Saturday 9 January 4pm Rachel Podger violin Join us live as Rachel (and her violin) explains how baroque composers used the ancient techniques of classical rhetoric to make their music talk. Saturday 9 January 7.30pm Rachel Podger violin Two of the UK’s outstanding young performance poets present brand-new poems they have written specially for this concert in response to music by Bach, Biber and Telemann played by of one of the world’s best-loved violinists. |
Saturday 9 January 9.30pm Art of Moog A dazzling contemporary re-imagination of the colourfully creative sound-world for the music of Bach pioneered in the 1960s by original synth genius Wendy Carlos, here performed live. Sunday 10 January 1pm Nicholas Mulroy tenor Singer and Hispanicist Nicholas Mulroy investigates the cultural and political background to the giants of 1960s Latin-American song-writing, and demonstrates their musical affinities with the great song-composers of 17th-century Europe. Sunday 10 Janury 4pm Nicholas Mulroy tenor In a brand-new exploration from three of this country’s most distinguished baroque musicians, songs of love, loss, religion and politics by 17th-century icons Purcell, Monteverdi and Strozzi speak across oceans and centuries to modern Latin-American ‘standards’ by the likes of Silvio Rodríguez and Caetano Veloso. Sunday 10 January 7.30pm Lucy Crowe soprano In another unique Baroque at the Edge collaboration, leading classical and folk musicians combine styles and skills in an uplifting celebration of the major role folk song and dance has played in European art music, from the Celtic fringe to the French court.
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