BBC Music Magazine described Rachel Podger as ‘Britain’s finest period violinist’. Guardian Angel is her personal exploration of the Baroque repertory for solo violin, including virtuoso music by J.S. Bach, Nicola Matteis, Giuseppe Tartini and Heinrich Biber.

A feast of colourful and joyful Christmas music from around Baroque Europe, with carols, motets, and instrumental music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Biber, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann and others.

We celebrate St Valentine’s Day with a delightful programme on the theme of love in its various aspects, sacred and secular and from first rapture to profound grief. The programme features work by Charpentier, Blow, Purcell, Dumont, Couperin, Draghi and Monteverdi.

‘Acis and Galatea’ is one of Handel’s most memorable and popular English theatrical works. We perform the rarely heard revised version of the work, as performed by Handel in London and Dublin between 1739 and 1742. ‘The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus’, written by Henry Purcell for Shakespeare’s play ‘Timon of Athens’, is a delightful curtain-raiser.