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, celebrating the extraordinary artists who lived and visited the Burlingtons’ Chiswick House, Hogarth’s House and Chiswick Riverside in the 1700s.
Instrumental music and songs from Italy, Scotland, Germany, France, England – all of it very much, London. All found its way to the fresh air, rivers and meadows that were an escape from the great city to the East.
Giuseppe Torelli – E minor Sonata
George Fredrick Handel – ‘Sweet silence, gentle springs’ (German Arias)
Giuseppe Tartini – G minor Sonata ‘Didone Abandonata’
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Consolations
Francesco Barsanti – Old Scots Tunes
Nicola Matteis – Ayres, Burlesks & Amore
Dr Pepusch – Violin Sonata
Malene Sheppard Skærved – Two Gardens 1. The Sphinx 2. The Mulberry Tree
Mihailo Trandafilovski – Chaconne
David Hackbridge Johnson – Apollo Variations
Peter Sheppard Skærved – Violin
Malene Sheppard Skærved – Speaker
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved is the dedicatee of over four hundred works for violin alone and acclaimed for his extensive recording and filming of early music. Recently he has released films on Nicolo Paganini’s violins in Genoa, as well as on the instruments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, and the Ashmolean Museum. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recordings of Hans Werner Henze Concertos.
Writer and filmmaker Malene Sheppard Skærved has collaborated extensively with composers, resulting in both orchestral melodramas, or more intimate chamber works. Her critically acclaimed work is performed across the USA and Europe. Working with Peter Sheppard Skaerved and the historian Ben Hebbert, she has made a series of films about Hogarth in Chiswick.
