Our Monteverdi Project continues with four superb works marrying musical drama and courtly dance; the main work is ll ballo delle ingrate, written for Mantua in 1608 and revised for Vienna in 1636.

A pre-concert talk by Peter Holman

Four of J.S. Bach’s greatest orchestral works – but two of them in unfamiliar guises. The famous ‘double violin concerto’ is played in the composer’s fascinating elaboration for two harpsichords and strings, while Tassilo Erhardt plays his reconstruction of the lost original version of the popular Suite in B minor, for solo violin rather than flute.

Tassilo Erhardt talks about Nicholas Lanier and his contemporaries.

In this absorbing tour of seventeenth century song, we travel from the Italy of Monteverdi and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger to Restoration England, via the French court and the beautiful airs of Michel Lambert.

An hour of Welsh traditional music as a prelude to Kannig’s lecture recital on Monday morning.

In this entertaining lecture recital Kannig introduce us to the fascinating history of Wales’s music, from ancient three-part carols in the Montgomeryshire Plygain tradition to airs and variations by Edward Jones and John Thomas, harpists to the Prince Regent and Queen Victoria.

An afternoon of talks and the permanent collection at Gainsborough’s House.

Two great court odes celebrating English female monarchs: Purcell wrote ‘Come, ye sons of arts’ for Queen Mary in 1694 and Handel wrote ‘Eternal source of light devine’ for Queen Anne in 1713. Purcell’s grand orchestral setting of the Te Deum and Jubilate was regularly performed in St Paul’s for state occasions.