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Explore Scarlatti

,Milton Court Concert Hall
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Inventive, exuberant, and endlessly entertaining, the keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti is a treasure-trove of musical possibilities. Explore a genius without limits in this day-long celebration.

There are nearly as many ways to play Scarlatti as there are performers. Here we bring together three of his greatest living champions for a day sharing their passion: three radically different perspectives united by their joy in his boundless genius.

And it really is boundless. Scarlatti is a composer who defies classification as Classical or Baroque, radical or conservative; drawing inspiration equally from his Italian training and the sunlit sounds of his adopted Spain. Angela Hewitt plays him on the piano, Mahan Esfahani plays him on the harpsichord and Aline Zylberajch uses a fortepiano in a day of musical conversation, sparkling performance and some of the most life-affirming music ever written for keyboard. 

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End-time to be announced nearer the event.

Programme

  • To be announced nearer the time  

Performers

  • Mahan Esfahani   harpsichord
  • Angela Hewitt   piano
  • Aline Zylberajch   fortepiano
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Sound Unbound with James R Gaines

Writer James R Gaines discusses the famed meeting between Bach and Frederick the Great in 1747, where the worlds of religion and spirituality collided with the rationality of early Enlightenment and the resulting fugue, Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’.  

Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available