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’Tis Nature’s Voice: Scherzi musicali

Academy of Ancient Music

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Two goats locking horns

Expect the unexpected, as Academy of Ancient Music opens the Baroque era’s musical jokebook for an evening of novelties, parodies and flights of fancy by Biber, Schmelzer and their contemporaries.

Humanity is part of nature too – and never more so than when we’re transforming the world around us into music. For composers like Biber, Schmelzer, Farina and Scheidt, there was nothing that wasn’t musical: a fencing school, a busy street, a city bell-tower or the chaos and clamour of battle.

You’ll hear them all in this flamboyant sonic extravaganza from six Baroque masters letting their imaginations run off the leash. Expect bagpipes and bullets, pealing bells and rollicking dance tunes, plus a bunch of violins that think they’re harps. They’re painted from life by Bojan Čičić and Academy of Ancient Music – performers who know that the Baroque era was at its best when it had a smile on its face.

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This performance will finish at approximately 9.20pm, including a 20-minute interval

Programme

  • Carlo Farina   Capriccio stravagante
  • Johann Paul von Westhoff   Imitatione delle campane
  • Johann Jakob Walther   Serenata a un coro di violini
  • Samuel Scheidt   Ludi musici
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer   Balletto à 4 ‘Fechtschule’
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber   Mensa sonora, Pars VI
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer   Polnische Sackpfeiffen a 3
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber   Battaglia à 10

Performers

  • Academy of Ancient Music  
  • Bojan Čičić   director & violin

Pre-concert talk

6.30pm, Milton Court Concert Hall

Free

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