• La Liberazione di Ruggiero | Buxton International Festival

    Wednesday 15th July 2026

    Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton

    Vache Baroque
    Jonathan Darbourne, Musical Director
    Eloise Lally, Director

    Francesca Caccini, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina 

       (Ruggiero)

    Further details at the Vache Baroque website and the Buxton Festival website.

    Alcina: Camilla Seale
    Ruggiero: Jon Stainsby
    Melissa: Phoebe Rayner
    Nettuno: Filippo Turkheimer
    Nunzia: Harriet Burns
    Sirena: Betty Makharinsky
    Una Damigella: Aina Miyagi Magnell
    Pastore/Astolfo: Tom Kelly

    Musical Director: Jonathan Darbourne
    Director: Eloise Lally
    Designer: Zahra Mansouri
    Choreographer: Katie Kelly
    Lighting Designer: Alex Musgrave
    Stage Manager: Bekah Tunnell
    Italian Coach: Valeria Perboni

    The Vache Baroque Band, led by Mayah Kadish

    15th, 17th and 21st July 2026 at 7.15pm / 19th July at 2.00pm
  • Farewell, Dowland

    Saturday 18th July 2026 at 3.00pm

    St John's Church, Buxton

    The Vache Baroque Band
    Thomas Allery, director

    2026 marks 400 years since the death of the English composer and lutenist John Dowland. In the same year – 1626 – the king of France, Louis XIII founded a group of strings called ‘The 24 Violins of the King’. Taking inspiration from these two events, Vache Baroque present a programme from the melting pot of musical styles and genres that was 17th-century England. Works by Dowland, Gibbons, Purcell, Lully, Marenzio, the Caccini sisters and others.

    Tickets and further details at the Buxton Festival website.

  • Oberon | BBC Proms

    Thursday 6th August 2026 at 7.00pm

    Royal Albert Hall

    Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
    Sir Mark Elder, conductor

    Carl Maria von Weber, Oberon

    Further details and tickets at the BBC Proms website. The performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

    Oberon: Nicky Spence
    Reiza: Jennifer Davis
    Sir Huon of Bordeaux: Charles Castronovo
    Sherasmin: Yannick Debus
    Fatima: Rachael Wilson
    Puck: Jasmin White
    Mermaids: Charlotte Bowden and Jessica Cale

  • The forgotten voice of Lusitano | Utrecht Early Music Festival

    Sunday 30th August 2026 at 3.00pm

    Domkerk, Utrecht

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    Works by Vicente Lusitano and his contemporaries.

    Further details and tickets at the Utrecht Early Music Festival website.

    Vicente Lusitano, Heu me, Domine
    Ghiselin Danckerts, Laetamini in Domino
    Vicente Lusitano, Regina caeli
    Nicola Vicentino, Heu mihi Domine
    Vicente Lusitano, Sancta Maria
    Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ave regina caelorum à 8
    Vicente Lusitano, Aspice Domine
    Orlandus Lassus, Regina caeli laetare à 7
    Vicente Lusitano, Inviolata à 8

  • The Singing Byrd | Utrecht Early Music Festival

    Monday 31st August 2026 at 5.00pm

    Sint-Augustinuskerk, Utrecht

    The Marian Consort
    Rory McCleery, director

    The Marian Consort reconstructs a hidden service with Byrd's Mass for Four Voices, interspersed with motets for Corpus Christi.

    Tickets and further details at the Utrecht Early Music Festival website.

    William Byrd
       Introit: Cibavit eos
       'Kyrie' and 'Gloria' from Mass for Four Voices
       
    Gradual: Oculi omnium
       '
    Credo' from Mass for Four Voices
       
    Offertory: Sacerdotes Domini
       '
    Sanctus' and 'Benedictus' from Mass for Four Voices 
       Ave verum corpus
       
    'Agnus Dei' from Mass for Four voices
       Communion: Quotiescunque manducabitis
       Ad Dominum cum tribularer

  • Bach x Palestrina | Lammermuir Festival

    Wednesday 9th September 2026 at 7.30pm

    Our Lady of Loretto, Musselburgh

    The Marian Consort
    English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
    Rory McCleery and Gawain Glenton, directors

    A fascinating programme that demonstrates the huge influence of Palestrina (The Prince of Music) on subsequent generations of musicians, among them the towering figure of JS Bach.

    Further details and tickets at the Lammermuir Festival website.

    Gabrieli, Jubilate Deo, omnis terra
    Palestrina, Missa sine nomine
    Hassler, Pater noster a8
    Schütz, Selig sind die Toten
    Handl, Media vita
    Schütz, Sehet an den Feigenbaum
    Stabile, Nunc dimittis a8
    Palestrina, Nunc dimittis a 8
    JS Bach, Komm, Jesu komm