RESCHEDULED: Philharmonia Chamber Players: Goldberg Variations

The Philharmonia’s Principal Viola Scott Dickinson and friends play one of the masterpieces of the Baroque era. The story goes that an insomniac Russian ambassador asked Bach to compose some ‘smooth and somewhat lively’ keyboard music, for his favourite musician, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, to play to him to cheer his sleepless nights. Scholars debate how much of this is true, but there is no doubt that Bach’s aria and 30 variations are one of t...