Flute and recorders – Rachel Brown
Violins – Adrian Butterfield, Oliver Webber
Viola – Rachel Byrt
Cello – Gavin Kibble
Harpsichord – Silas Wollston
‘Barbaric Beauty’
Many composers of the baroque period were fascinated by the music and culture of foreign lands and this programme brings together examples that demonstrate the huge variety of styles and influences available to them at that time
France and the fascination for lands afar
Polish bagpipes and Barbaric Beauty
Spices of the Orient, Spanish folly and curiosities from the Canaries
The far-flung corners of the Earth – the British Isles
“The London Handel Players are delighted to be celebrating 25 years of chamber music making in 2025. They will be bringing to Tonbridge a rather special programme which investigates the connection between folk and art music in the baroque period. Georg Philipp Telemann worked for a short time in Poland as a young man and was thrilled by the folk musicians he heard there and whose exhilarating playing he felt provided him with ‘enough ideas for a lifetime of composition’. LHP have brought together a fascinating mix of music with influences from across the globe.” (Adrian Butterfield, Violinist-Director, LHP)
London Handel Players ★★★★★
(Fiona Maddocks, The Observer – December 2023)
TMC Members are invited to a Pre-Concert Reception from 6.45pm
Doors will open at 7pm
Standard ticket £25 | Students & Under 18s £5
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult