A Breath of Fresh Air! – Visits to the Hogarths and Burlingtons
St Nicholas' Church,, London, W4 2PJ
Thursday 18th June 2026
‘A Breath of Fresh Air! – Visits to the Hogarths and Burlingtons’
Torelli – E minor Sonata
Handel – ‘Sweet silence, gentle springs’ (German Arias)
Tartini – G minor Sonata ‘Didone Abandonata’
Telemann – ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
Rousseau – Les Consolations
Barsanti - Old Scots Tunes
Matteis – Ayres, Burlesks & Amore
Pepusch – Violin Sonata
New words and music:
Malene Sheppard Skærved – Two Gardens 1. The Sphinx 2. The Mulberry
Mihailo Trandafilovski – Chaconne
David Hackbridge Johnson – Apollo Variations
Peter Sheppard Skærved – Violin
Julian Perkins - Harpsichord
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. We will be celebrating the extraordinary artists who lived and visited the Burlingtons’ Chiswick House, Hogarth’s House and Chiswick Riverside in the 1700s.
New 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.
We will also share new work inspired by this extraordinary place and its history: Malene Sheppard Skaerved's poetry responds to the the gardens of Chiswick House and Hogarth's House.
We are also joined by two London composers: David Hackbridge Johnson in dialogue with the statue of the Apollo Belvedere which stood in the Burlington's cupola, and locally-based Mihailo Trandafilovski brings a chaconnne, the most famous musical form based on walking!
Torelli – E minor Sonata
Handel – ‘Sweet silence, gentle springs’ (German Arias)
Tartini – G minor Sonata ‘Didone Abandonata’
Telemann – ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
Rousseau – Les Consolations
Barsanti - Old Scots Tunes
Matteis – Ayres, Burlesks & Amore
Pepusch – Violin Sonata
New words and music:
Malene Sheppard Skærved – Two Gardens 1. The Sphinx 2. The Mulberry
Mihailo Trandafilovski – Chaconne
David Hackbridge Johnson – Apollo Variations
Peter Sheppard Skærved – Violin
Julian Perkins - Harpsichord
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. We will be celebrating the extraordinary artists who lived and visited the Burlingtons’ Chiswick House, Hogarth’s House and Chiswick Riverside in the 1700s.
New 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.
We will also share new work inspired by this extraordinary place and its history: Malene Sheppard Skaerved's poetry responds to the the gardens of Chiswick House and Hogarth's House.
We are also joined by two London composers: David Hackbridge Johnson in dialogue with the statue of the Apollo Belvedere which stood in the Burlington's cupola, and locally-based Mihailo Trandafilovski brings a chaconnne, the most famous musical form based on walking!
