An entrancing programme from this “most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists” explores darkness and glimpses of light through music old and new – including the Kidane Etudes inspired by a Kandinsky painting.

This programme has been specially curated for our Festival by the wonderful pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen, who “has the rare ability to communicate the essential meaning of whatever she plays” (Richard Goode).

It embraces music of four centuries, from the Walsingham variations of John Bull and other Renaissance gems by Byrd and Gibbons to new music by Héloïse Werner and featured composer Daniel Kidane – a beautifully crafted sequence. It slips away into shadow with Thomas Adès’ haunting Darknesse Visible, an explosion of the work by John Dowland that precedes it and “a haunting meditation in which the presence of John Dowland is clearest where the music seems least like him. A magical illusion as well as a moving homage”.

Mishka Rushdie Momen piano