This programme evokes a meeting of the Bach family, during which there is a wedding. It includes music by several members of the family. The programme also marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Johann Pachelbel with his Kanon and Gigue.

The programme contrasts two works by the young J S Bach with music by two of his most important older contemporaries, who influenced his early keyboard music.

Il rè pastore is the last and greatest of Mozart’s youthful operas. It is rarely performed today, though it contains a good deal of beautiful music, and it was highly thought of by its composer.

When Mozart wrote his Quintet in E flat, K452, he considered it the best thing he had written in his life. Beethoven wrote a companion work, op. 16, and performed the two pieces together. These masterpieces are contrasted with Haydn’s great E flat piano sonata Hob. XVI/52, and an arrangement by A F Wustrow of Beethoven’s wind sextet op. 71.

As well as playing and talking about his instruments, Ian Harrison explores the history of English popular music from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.

The Requiem was Mozart’s last work. Unfortunately, Mozart left it unfinished, and his widow asked the minor composer Franz Xaver Süssmayr to complete it. Süssmayr’s is the version that is most often heard today, though in this radical version Richard Maunder has tried to produce a version closer to Mozart’s late style. The result provides a fascinating new insight into a familiar masterpiece.