Mahan Esfahani
with live electronics

St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington

Tue 12 Sept 3pm

Duration: 65 mins approx

Book this concert £15.75

Overture to Orpheus
honig.meer.licht (honey.sea.light)
Rain Dreaming
Programme commun, ‘Musique?’

Harpsichord with electronics

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Photo credit: Kaja Smith

Mahan Esfahani is an intrepid explorer of his instrument’s outer limits with a peerless devotion to extending the harpsichord’s repertoire in our own time.

This stunningly atmospheric programme, in which audience members may move around the church, takes us from Dutch composer Andriessen’s seminal work for harpsichord alone through the young German composer Oscar Jockel’s recent honig.meer.licht to the liquid rippling of Takemitsu’s beautiful Rain Dreaming.

Luc Ferrari’s ‘Programme commun, ‘Musique socialiste?’ (1972) for harpsichord and tape, is an extravaganza that seeks the equality of historic harpsichord and modern electronics. It poses the question: can music be ‘socialist’?

St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington

The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin is one of the great ecclesiastical buildings of mediaeval Scotland, founded in 1380 and known for centuries as "The Lamp of Lothian".

It was severely damaged in the 16th Century during Henry VIII's 'Rough Wooing' of Scotland, and after the Reformation only the nave was used as a parish church, with the choir and tower remaining roofless.

It was finally restored to its former glory in the 1970s, and is Scotland's longest church as well as one of its most beautiful, with a wonderfully warm, resonant acoustic.

St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington

Address

St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington
EH41 4BZ

Getting there by bus

Buses passing trough Haddington
EAST COAST BUSES: X6, X7, 106
PRENTICE: 108, 109, 101, 111, 122
EVE COACHES: 121
Please check bus timetables before booking your tickets.

Getting there by train

The nearest station is Drem.

Getting there by car

Haddington is off the A1. There are two exits off the A1 coming from the east or the west.

Accessibility

Parking:

There is free on-street parking, 100m from the church, on the road, and throughout the town.

We can offer 3 spaces inside the church grounds, buy the side of the church, for blue badge holders. Please email [email protected] to book a space, subject to availability and on a first come first served basis.

Terrain:

Tarmac and gravel.

Induction Loop:
Yes

Toilets:
Good male/female provision plus adapted toilet for disabled.

Wheelchair Access:

Access is easier via the North Side (side) door, next to the blue badge parking spaces, and open 30 minutes before concert. There will be a volunteer steward in a high vis jacket who will provide assistance. There is level access into venue.

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