John Williams and Friends

Australia’s John Williams has for decades now been a master-player of the classical guitar. This year he gives a recital in spectacular Fishmongers’ Hall, echoing his performance at the first City of London Festival in 1962. He has devised a programme bringing together music and musicians from across different ages and cultural worlds. The instrumental line-up for The Light on the Edge, by Williams’s compatriot Phillip Houghton, includes an Aboriginal didjeridu. And Steve Goss’s specially commissioned new work takes its title from William Dunbar’s poetic tribute to England’s capital: ‘London, thou art the flower of cities all.’