Helen finishes her run up to Christmas by joining John Butt and Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall for an evening of unexpected Christmas stories. Christmas music isn't all about trumpets, drums, and heavenly hosts. Baroque composers were equally interested in the shepherds and the stable and Arcangelo Corelli's evocation of the straw and lowing cattle is perhaps the most famous of them all. In using the concerto Grosso form, he was both picking up on Alessandro Stradella's structural innovation and inspiring Pietro Locatelli in his own Christmas scene.

Stradella also contributes a Nativity cantata with a twist: the first character to appear is Satan! Caroline Shaw, herself a string player and singer, will draw these threads of virtuoso strings and singers together in her second commission for Dunedin Consort.

23rd December 2024, 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall London

Tickets from Dunedin Consort