A Beautiful Object, shining new light on an old treasure - world premiere

This concert centres around A Beautiful Object: the harpsichord, with a world premiere of a new work of that same name by a rising figure on the contemporary music scene, composer Héloïse Werner.

Auspiciously absent at the start, the harpsichord is introduced with music of its main era, in an arrangement that links its celebrated past to the present. With Héloïse’s piece, then follows an exciting journey of discoveries. Stephen Dodgson’s Sonata has beautiful serenadelike character, with its last movement a nod to the harpsichord’s illustrious past, guiding us back in time again to one of the Unmeasured Preludes by French baroque composer Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre.

The evening finishes with one of the most famous contemporary harpsichord concertos to date.