Highgate West Hill
London N6 6AP
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival brings together distinguished chamber musicians from around the world for an annual celebration of chamber music. In the intimate setting of St Anne’s Highgate, a stone’s throw from Hampstead Heath, HICMF presents varied programmes with masterworks of the repertoire set alongside lesser-known works, delivered with fresh, energised performances by world-class musicians performing alongside each another in combinations not heard anywhere else.
‘Passion and sheer panache’ – The Strad ‘Serious performers [and] concerts of genuine world class’ – Camden New Journal ‘Top soloists blend to perfection’ – ArtsDesk
Concert 1 – Baroque Night!
Rachel Podger – violin, Tom Foster – harpsichord, Sergio Bucheli – lute, Jonathan Byers & Ashok Klouda – cello, Daisy Bevan – soprano
Celebrate the start of HICMF 2024 with the festival’s first ever evening dedicated entirely to baroque music. ‘The unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin’ (The Times), Rachel Podger joins outstanding period specialists, and soprano Daisy Bevan makes a welcome return following her remarkable stand-in at last year’s festival.
Bach – Violin Sonata in G BWV 1021
Handel – Selection from 9 German Arias
Gabrielli – Cello Sonata in G
Kapsberger – Libro primo Intavolatura di lauto: Toccata VI
Handel – Sonata in D HWV 371
Vivaldi – Cello Sonata in G minor RV 42
Handel – E major Harmonious Blacksmith
Gabrielli – Canon a due violoncelli
Biber – Sonata Representativa