In the Light of the Candle (Quartet)
Tue 18 Nov
|The National Gallery (Room 34), London
Music from the Shadows of Joseph Wright of Derby: Works by William Herschel, Edward Miller, Thomas Linley the Elder, and GF Handel
Time & Location
18 Nov 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
The National Gallery (Room 34), London, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN, UK
About the event
This concert by the London Obbligato Collective offers a musical response to Joseph Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, exploring the curiosity and expressive nuance of Wright’s candlelit scenes.
At the centre is Edward Miller, flautist, organist, and composer, whose portrait by Wright was recently rediscovered. As a young musician, Miller played in Handel’s orchestra, and his networks connect him to William Herschel and indirectly to Thomas Linley the Elder, both active in Bath’s musical life during the 1770s. Wright himself briefly lived in Bath, situating these figures in the same Enlightenment milieu.
The programme also features Handel’s cantata Pensieri notturni di Filli, whose nocturnal atmosphere resonates with the introspective mood of Wright’s work.
London Obbligato Collective
Masumi Yamamoto (harpsichord)
Emily Atkinson, soprano