What's On
We are not able to invite audiences to LSO St Luke’s for the 2021 Festival. Instead, all concerts are available to buy online now and available to view until 31 March 2021.
Saturday 23 January 4pm
Elizabeth Kenny: illustrated talk
Tickets: £5
Live Zoom Event with Q&As
Elizabeth Kenny is one of Europe’s leading lute-players as a soloist and chamber musician, and a member of Les Arts Florissants and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She is Dean of Students at the Royal Academy of Music, has her own ensemble, Theatre of the Ayre, and is known for innovative collaborations with the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain and with a range of baroque singers including Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Carolyn Sampson and Nicholas Mulroy.
‘In the concert Cubaroque, tenor Nicholas Mulroy mingled rhetorically-florid Baroque era songs by Purcell and Monteverdi with gently romantic Latin American folk songs and pop song… Mulroy sang both with such a winning, unforced ease, and the accompaniment from Elizabeth Kenny and Toby Carr had such an infectious rhythmic swing that you could almost believe they were genuinely close.’
Concert 1
Danse Éternelle
Sean Shibe - guitar, lute
Tickets: £10
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.
Friday 22 January
Danse Éternelle
Robert Ballard – Branles de village
Pierre Blondeau – Basse Danse ‘La Magdalena’
Ballard – Entrée X
Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No 1
Erik Satie – Gnossienne No 1
Erik Satie – Gnossienne No 3
Francis Poulenc – Sarabande
Antonio José – Pavana triste
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
From Scottish lute manuscripts:
Swit Sant Nickola
Mervells sarabande
Canaries
A Scott’s tune
Holi and faire
Ladie lie neer me
‘[Sean Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome.’
Concert 2
Young Artists Showcase
Eliza Haskins - recorder
Toril Azzalini-Machecler - percussion
Tickets: £10
Two alumni of BBC Young Musician 2020 join forces to explore music from the past and present, ranging from 17th-century baroque compositions by Van Eyck, Montanari and more, to contemporary sounds and unique personal arrangements of music by Vivaldi and folkband PerKelt.
Friday 22 January
Young Artists Showcase
Jacob Van Eyck – The Nightingale
Signore Detri – Recorder Sonata in C minor
Annette Ziegenmeyer – ‘Who’s Bar Three’ from The Delayed Flute
Markus Zanhausen – Minimal Music
Agnes Dorwarth – Articulator
Arranged by Haskins – Medieval Medley
Francesco Montanari – Recorder Concerto in B flat major
Antonio Vivaldi arranged by Eliza Haskins – Recorder Concerto in C minor ‘collage’
PerKelt arranged by Haskins & Azzalini-Machecler – Pilgrim FusioN
Concert 3
Conversations in Concert
Rachel Podger - violin
Abena-Essah Bediako - performance poet
Tom Guthrie - director
Tickets: £10
One of the UK’s outstanding performance poets presents brand-new poems, written specially for this concert, in response to baroque solo violin music played by one of the world’s best-loved violinists.
Programme includes works by: Biber, Bach, Telemann, Tartini and Matteis
Concert 4
Bach’s Friends Electric
Art of Moog
Robin Bigwood - synths, vocoder
Steven Devine - synths
Annabel Knight - wind synth
Martin Perkins - synths, vocoder
Tickets: £10
A dazzling contemporary re-imagination of the colourfully creative new sound-world for the music of Bach pioneered in the 60s by original synth genius Wendy Carlos, performed live by four fearless synth-players.
Friday 22 January
Bach’s Friends Electric
JS Bach – Prelude in C major, BWV 846 (from The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)
JS Bach – Canon sequence[d]
JS Bach – Prelude in E minor, BWV855 (from The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)
JS Bach – Andante from Organ Sonata in E minor, BWV528
JS Bach – Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe from Cantata No 147, BWV147
JS Bach – Chorale Prelude Ich ruf zu dir, BWV639
JS Bach – Sonatina from Cantata No 106 (Actus Tragicus), BWV106
JS Bach – Allegro from the Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
JS Bach – Prélude from Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV1007
JS Bach – Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV988
JS Bach – 14 canons on the Goldberg bass, BWV1087
JS Bach – Schafe können sicher weiden from Cantata No 208 (Hunting Cantata), BWV208
JS Bach – Adagio from Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboard in G minor, BWV1029
Concert 5
Cubaroque
Nicholas Mulroy - tenor
Elizabeth Kenny - theorbo & guitar
Toby Carr - guitar
Tickets: £10
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, Caetano Veloso, Pablo Milanés and Victor Jara.
Friday 22 January
Cubaroque
Henry Purcell: An Evening Hymn
Pablo Milanés: El breve espacio en que no estás
José Marín: Ojos, pues me desdeñáis
Claudio Monteverdi: Tempro la cetra
Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie
Francesca Caccini: Maria, dolce Maria
José Marín: Sepan todos que muero
Caetano Veloso: Cucurrucu paloma
Purcell – Oh, fair Cedaria
Juan Hidalgo – Esperar, sentir, morir
Victor Jara – Te recuerdo Amanda
Silvio Rodríguez – Óleo de mujer con sombrero
Monteverdi – Si dolce e’l tormento
Purcell – In the black dismal dungeon of despair
Silvio Rodríguez – La gaviota
‘[Elizabeth Kenny] Radical’
Concert 6
FolkBaroque
Lucy Crowe - soprano
Tom Moore - fiddle
La Nuova Musica
David Bates - director
Tickets: £10
In another Baroque at the Edge once-in-a-lifetime collaboration, leading classical and folk musicians combine their 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.
Friday 22 January
FolkBaroque
Frederic Weatherly – Danny Boy
Orazio Michi – Nina nanna al bambino Gesú
Trad. – Valentines / Flowers of Edinburgh
Antonio Bertali – Ciaccona
Anon – Baccapipes (variations on Greensleeves arr. Dipper)
Anon 16th-century – Greensleeves to a ground
Andreas Hammerschmidt – Kunst des Küssens
Trad. – Hare’s Maggot / Flaxley Green Dance
Henry Purcell – The Plaint
Trad. – If I were a black bird
‘Folkbaroque is a hit of pure joy to the start of the year’
Festival Pass for access to all 6 concerts – £55
