Let me introduce you to Nathaniel…..
It is Nathaniel’s spinet-in-the-making that you met in my post last week – and who some of you may have met briefly if you read the post about Les Bougies Baroques harpsichord duel – Handel versus Scarlatti! (Nathaniel was Handel…)
Fascinated by the sound of the harpsichord from childhood, Nathaniel won his first prize here in Hampstead in 2010 at the Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition at Fenton House. Since then he has gone on to win a raft of other prizes, to study in Paris and in Rome and to perform across the UK, Europe, and both north and south America. Following the release of a new series of teaching videos that he created for the Japanese Early Music organisation ‘Académie de Cour’, he has been invited to perform in Japan in 2024.
Nathaniel has released two CDs – The 18th century French Salon and Bach’s Golberg Variations.
However, his especial passion is the music of Mozart and the 18th century French masters – and those are what he will focus on, on his new spinet, for us on 4th November: Bach, Couperin, Mozart, Handel and Purcell among others. To get us all in the mood he might well appear in costume – and he will certainly tell us lots about the music he will be playing and the salons in which it was performed.
If you would like to hear a few clips of Nathaniel playing, check in to his site here.
18th century supper
And of course the concert will be followed by an 18th century buffet supper – think maybe Mrs Raffald’s raised salmon pie or ‘Balons of the Legs of Fowls’ with dressed beets….
To buy tickets for 4th November go here
Nathaniel with one of his more glamourous harpsichords.
And don’t forget….
22nd October – Highgate Society Sunday Lunchtime concerts.
The Ladies of the Salons. Accompanied by Matt Redman, Patricia Hammond sings parlour songs from the 1830s to the 1930s.
For more information and to buy tickets
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