Moscow:
Life and Love in the Time of Tyranny
27 June 2025 | 14:00
Moscow has always been a city of contradictions—glorious and brutal, a place of deep tradition and sudden upheaval.
Travel through time to discover how composers lived and worked under the shadow of tsars, revolutions, and dictators—creating masterpieces while navigating censorship, oppression, and fear.
Through music and storytelling, explore how Moscow shaped composers who defied, endured, or were broken by its rule—from Tchaikovsky’s secret suffering to Rachmaninoff’s exile, from Scriabin’s mystical visions to Shostakovich’s coded defiance.
A Private House in Chelsea
27 June 2025
14:00 UK Time
EVENT PROGRAMME
14.00
Teas and cakes
14.30