Songs and fantasias from Elizabethan and Jacobean England

Experimental, virtuosic, passionate: the wind quintet embodied the aesthetic of the emerging Romantic movement. Music by Danzi, Rossini and Reicha.

The pain of unrequited love, chivalry and the pleasures of spring: aspects of love, both serious and lighthearted, expressed through medieval song and poetry. A concert to mark the release of The Language of Love (Hyperion CDA67634).

Works by Weelkes, Gibbons, and Byrd, accompanied by the Kingston Early Music ensemble, with instrumental interludes for recorders and viols.

Through the first half of the 18th century, Hickford’s Room was the place to hire for your classy concert. Handel, Mozart and J. C. Bach all gave subscription concerts here. Cantatas and instrumental chamber music by Handel and his contemporaries, including Scottish Folk Songs collected by William McGibbon.

Celebrate the patron saint of music’s name day in style -- Elizabethan songs for soprano and broken consort, and theatre music, to celebrate the first performances in Rose of Kingston.

Baroque cantatas for advent and Christmas music by Bach, Telemann and their contemporaries.