SVF favourite Timothy Travers-Brown joins our resident Baroque orchestra in an exciting programme of eighteenth-century music for countertenor and orchestra.

Joglaresa ring in Christmas and the New Year with voices, fidel, harp, bells and bagpipes, singing and playing carols, lullabies, dance tunes and wassails.

Buxtehude was Bach’s greatest predecessor; his best-known work is ‘Membra Jesu nostri’. We perform it with Bach’s first masterpiece, the ‘Actus tragicus’, and other music by Buxtehude. The concert features rich and varied combinations of solo voices, choir, violins, viols, recorders and organ.

J S Bach’s Mass in B minor is arguably the greatest religious work from the Baroque period and sums up his career as a composer. This performance incorporates recent advances in our knowledge of how such works were performed in the eighteenth century.