We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.

We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.

We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.

We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.

We explore the wonderful German baroque of J.C.Bach, Buxtehude, Schein, Scheidt and Geist with one of the greatest counter-tenors of our day.

Take five viols, and what can you play…. Debussy, Kate Bush, Byrd, Gibbons, Arvo Pärt and, of course, Paul Desmond, but brilliantly woven into five In Nomines by our own Jon Rees.

Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Canterbury Cathedral

Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Canterbury Cathedral

Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Leeds

Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Leeds

Secret Byrd with The Gesualdo Six for the first time in Liverpool

Take five viols, and what can you play…. Debussy, Kate Bush, Byrd, Gibbons, Arvo Pärt and, of course, Paul Desmond, but brilliantly woven into five In Nomines by our own Jon Rees.

We join the fabulous Tenebrae at Wigmore Hall for an eclectic programme, including a new work for choir and consort by Alexander Campkin

George Benjamin’s masterpiece, Upon Silence, with Susan Bickley at the Malling Festival

Bach’s late masterpiece, together with the 20-year-old Purcell’s Fantazies

The first of two concerts in the wonderful Lammermuir Festival: Gibbons, Lawes & Purcell with one of our favourite singers, Helen Charlston

Secret Byrd is back, and for the first time in Oxford

A programme of baroque music with Ruby Hughes: music by Bach, Rameau, Telemann, Purcell & Handel

Purcell songs and fantazias together with some of Michael Nyman’s most memorable works

The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.

The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.

The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.

The remarkable semi-theatrical experience returns with The Gesualdo Six. William Byrd’s music was a beacon of hope for Elizabethan Catholics, some of whom worshiped in secret, using his music to celebrate mass. But they faced prosecution and death if they were discovered.

Five viols playing music by Byrd, Debussy, Purcell, Nyman, Bach and, of course, Dave Brubeck (though it was actually written by Paul Desmond).

Nico Muhly’s 2012 work for Fretwork & the Hilliard Ensemble, coupled with Orlando Gibbons’s anthems and consort music. With Anna Dennis, Iestyn Davies, Sam Boden, Hugo Hymas & Jimmy Holliday

Buxtehude’s Easter cantata cycle, Membra Jesu Nostri, together with Bach’s Piece d’Orgue

A concert in memory of Timothy Symons, with Hereford Cathedral Choir, directed by Geraint Bowen. Music by Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins and Lawes.