Rachael Podger has been called “the queen of the baroque violin”, with Gramophone magazine describing her as “a glorious example of someone who lives her life through her violin”. Today, she walks a sonic tightrope as she plays the baroque repertoire for unaccompanied violin – by turns flamboyant, playful, perilous and sublime. Expect colourful fantasies from Matteis and Westhoff and intellectual bravura from Bach, as well as something new (and very personal) from Chad Kelly.

Programme:

Noguiera and Klagenfurt manuscripts: A Suite of short movements
Matteis, Nicola: Fantasia con discretione
Bach arr. Kelly: Toccata and fugue BWV 565 arranged for solo violin in A minor
Kelly: Phantasia for solo violin
von Westhoff: Suite for solo violin (1683)
Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006

£5 – £25