

Guitars & Theorbo
Musical Wanderlust - Apollo's Cabinet CD Presentation
Sat 09 Dec
|Westminster Music Library
We’re presenting music from our upcoming debut album: Musical Wanderlust - Charles Burney’s European Travels in search of harmony.


Time & Location
09 Dec 2023, 18:30
Westminster Music Library, 35 St Martin's St, London WC2H 7HP, UK
About the event
We’re presenting music from our upcoming debut album: Musical Wanderlust - Charles Burney’s European Travels in search of harmony A Baroque musical voyage following Burney on his journey: a kaleidoscope of European Baroque music with compositions from each of the countries he visited, some famous, others seldom-heard, interspersed with readings of his original 18th century diary entries. Highlights are the breathtaking virtuosity of Vivaldi's stylus phantasticus chamber concerto La Notte, a new arrangement of the German folk song Kraut und Rüben based on Dietrich Buxtehude's La Capricciosa and Bach's Goldberg variation Quodlibet, a choral version of a Dutch sailors' prayer Den man de quart staande and, last but very much not least, a cantata by Charles Burney himself called The despairing shepherd.
Winners of the Göttingen Händel Competition and the Maurizio Pratola competition in 2022, Apollo's Cabinet bring a signature mix of acting, dancing, poetry and silliness to bring historical performance…