A Breath of Fresh Air!

The Friends of St Nicholas' Church and Hogarth's House together present a return of last year’s tremendously successful evening of music and words. A celebration of the extraordinary artists who lived and visited the Burlingtons’ Chiswick House, Hogarth’s House and Chiswick Riverside in the 1700s.

New instrumental music and songs from Italy, Scotland, Germany, France and England – all of it very much London. All found their way to the fresh air, rivers and meadows that were an escape from the great city to the east. There will also be new work inspired by this extraordinary place and its history: Malene Sheppard Skaerved's poetry responds to the gardens of Chiswick House and Hogarth's House.

There are also new works by two London composers: David Hackbridge Johnson is in dialogue with the statue of the Apollo Belvedere which stood in the Burlington's cupola, and locally-based Mihailo Trandafilovski brings a chaconnne, the most famous musical form based on walking!

Programme:
Torelli E minor Sonata
Handel ‘Sweet silence, gentle springs’ (German Arias)
Tartini G minor Sonata ‘Didone Abandonata’
Telemann ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
Rousseau Les Consolations
Barsanti Old Scots Tunes
Matteis Ayres, Burlesks & Amore
Pepusch Violin Sonata
Malene Sheppard Skærved Two Gardens 1. The Sphinx 2. The Mulberry
Mihailo Trandafilovski Chaconne
David Hackbridge Johnson Apollo Variations

Performers:
Peter Sheppard Skærved violin
Julian Perkins harpsichord