(Credit: Official Website / Chris Sorensen)

The Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival will now take place between Sept. 11 through Oct. 2, 2020.

The event will now be comprised of four online chamber concerts set to take place every Friday over the course of one month. Audiences will be able to watch the performances via the organization’s YouTube channel.

“We are thrilled to go ahead with the Festival and turn it into a family affair. We are giving audiences the opportunity to go behind the scenes with Lord Salisbury, who will introduce Hatfield House’s historic features with art historian Dr. Emily Burns,” said Artistic Director and cellist Guy Johnston. “I am delighted to invite many of the musicians who have become firm favorites at the Festival to perform under these unusual circumstances, with no audience except the Salisbury family. Rather than abandoning this year’s Festival, we felt it was so important to keep musicians seen and heard, and above all employed.”

One concert will feature a performance of Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major with pianist Melvyn Tan and Johnston interpreting the piece.

Another will feature the Navarra Quartet and clarinetist Julian Bliss in Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet.

Soprano Katherine Broderick and pianist Kathryn Stott will join forces for a program of music by Quilter, Fauré, and Schubert.

Finally, the organization will present a historic performance with music by John Dowland as performed by Iestyn Davies, Elizabeth Kenny, and William Whitehead.

All performances will be recorded by Apple and Bisquit Recordings.