Music and readings in a candlelit hall of London’s oldest working hospital

"But the remedy, which of all others bids fairest to relieve the patient, is musick…”

Reflections on ancient and modern musick with the application to the cure of diseases (Richard Brocklesby, 1749)

A patient is seized with fever and delirium - will they make it through the night?

Join us in the candlelit Great Hall of London’s oldest working hospital for an evening of eighteen century music and readings with mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries ("emotional force" - The Times) and Ensemble Augelletti ("elegant pathos and rip-roaring technical dexterity" - The Arts Desk).

Featuring music by Handel, Purcell and their contemporaries, readings from historic medical treatises and texts created in workshops at Barts Hospital.