When the coronavirus pandemic started at the end of March 2020, LSO Discovery’s long-standing work in three Barts Health NHS Trust hospitals in East London, like so much of our other activity, ground to a halt.

For 2021, Baroque at the Edge has created its very own podcast station, offering soundscapes, news, and glimpses behind the scenes, presented by BBC Radio 3’s Fiona Talkington.

Classical guitar virtuoso Sean Shibe brings the energy to Baroque at the Edge 2021 with real dance tunes from the 1600s, played on the guitar’s ancestor, the lute, alongside 20th-century music by Ravel and Poulenc. 

Bach goes electric at Baroque at the Edge 2021, with synth ensemble Art of Moog - a quartet of synth-players who explore the electronic sound-world for baroque music first introduced to the world by Wendy Carlos’s Switched on Bach albums in the 1960s, but to which they bring the twin enhancements of new technology and live performance.