Music + Word: A Midsummer Nocturne

Writers and musicians have long sought to capture the long light and shifting mood of midsummer in their work.This midsummer's eve, join us for a programme of music and words that begins in the walled garden before moving into the atmospheric Hay Barn.

The evening brings together readings and works for piano in dialogue with the long summer evening.

Featuring texts by Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, T.

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Eliot and John Clare alongside music by Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Schubert, the programme traces shifting light and heightened atmosphere of the longest day of the year.The centrepiece of the evening is Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in G major on its bicentenary.

It's one of his final works, beloved for its breadth, lyricism and expansiveness.