What's On
We were not able to invite audiences to LSO St Luke’s for the 2021 Festival. Instead, all concerts were available to buy online and were viewable until 31 March 2021.
Thursday 7 January 4pm
The Clerkenwell Ballad Walk
Vivien Ellis - folksinger
Dafydd Wyn Phillips - historian

Tickets: £5
Friday 8 January 4pm
Synthesizer Demonstration:
Truly, Madly, Moogly
Art of Moog

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom Event with Q & A
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’.
‘Fine musicians … practiced in the subtle arts of the baroque … unleashed on the most up-to-date technological musical instruments. I was in bliss.’
Friday 8 January 7.30pm
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.
Sunday 18 April
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.’
Saturday 9 January 1pm
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.
Saturday 9 January 1pm
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
Saturday 9 January 4pm
Illustrated talk and demonstration: Baroque Music as Speech
Rachel Podger

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom Event with Q & A
Join us live as Rachel (and her violin) explains how baroque composers used the ancient techniques of classical rhetoric to make their music talk.
‘[Rachel Podger] … intoxicating combination of power and grace’
Saturday 9 January 7pm
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
Saturday 9 January 9pm
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.
Saturday 9 January 9pm
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
Sunday 10 January 1pm
Illustrated talk: Like Minds
Nicholas Mulroy - tenor

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom Event with Q & A
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 January 4pm
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.
Sunday 10 January 4pm
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’
Sunday 10 January 7pm
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.
Sunday 10 January 7pm
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’
Saturday 16 January 4pm
Sean Shibe interviewed by Fiona Talkington

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom Event with Q&As
Come along and meet Sean Shibe, described as ‘one of the most riveting performers’ and ‘simply spell-binding’ by Ivan Hewett in his 4-star Daily Telegraph review of Baroque at the Edge 2021.
Why not make Saturday ‘Sean Shibe’ day? Have your questions ready for Sean on the Live Zoom and then listen to his concert immediately afterwards.
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.’
Saturday 30 January 4pm
Lucy Crowe in conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Tickets: £5
Come along and meet Lucy Crowe, star of the final concert, Folkbaroque, at the 2021 Baroque at the Edge Festival. Alexandra Coghlan of i-news gave the concert a 5-star review saying:
“Folkbaroque is a hit of pure joy at the start of the year – after-hours party meets on-duty recital”
And…
“Code switching between polished classical ornaments and the swoops and straight tone of folk-singing, Crowe is the fulcrum … beautifully supported by the eclectic group of harp, chamber organ, violin, double bass and cello.”
And, if you haven’t already heard the Folkbaroque concert, why not make a day of it? Have your questions ready for Lucy Crowe at the Live Zoom and listen to the Folkbaroque concert before or after you get to meet her. Tickets can be booked below.
Saturday 6 February 4pm
Robin Bigwood: Unnatural sounds - a history of synthesized music

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom with Q & As
Robin Bigwood is the brains behind Bach’s Friends Electric, a concert he gave with his group Art of Moog during this year’s Festival. As an upbeat to that, Robin also gave us a behind-the-scenes Live Zoom look at the synthesizers they were using in the concert. And now he’s back with a second Live Zoom, this time on the history of synthesized music. If you haven’t met Robin before, you’re in for a treat. And if you haven’t already heard Bach’s Friends Electric, tickets are £10 (concert booking lower down the page).
‘As if stern old Bach had been sprinkled with fairy dust.’
Saturday 13 February 4pm
Nick Mulroy: The Music of Sight

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom with Q & As
Festival tenor Nicholas Mulroy shares his private passion for fine art. From Brueghel to Basquiat and Raphael to Rothko, he looks at how music and musicians have been depicted in paintings down the centuries, and how music and art have inspired each other.
“Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time” (Jean-Michel Basquiat)
If you haven’t already heard Nicholas singing in ‘Cubaroque’ (see below), why not make a day of it? Have your questions ready at the Live Zoom, and listen to his haunting concert of Latin-American and baroque as well!
Saturday 6 March 4pm
2021 Young Artists Showcase:
meet Eliza Haskins & Toril Azzalini-Machecler

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom with Q & As
The stars of this year’s Baroque at the Edge Young Artists Showcase discuss how to build repertoire and create adventurous programmes.
Saturday 13 March 4pm
David Bates in interview with Fiona Talkington

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom with Q & As
David Bates talks about his work with La Nuova Musica, and explains how he devised his ‘FolkBaroque’ concert for Baroque at the Edge.
Saturday 20 March 4pm
Nicholas Mulroy: music and images for Holy Week

Tickets: £5
Live Zoom with Q & As
Singer Nicholas Mulroy returns, following his highly popular recent talk on music in art, to discuss music and images for Holy Week.