With 22 events over 9 days, the Festival brings together leading artists such as Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre, La Nuova Musica with Iestyn Davies, Capriccio Stravagante Trio with Skip Sempé, Doulce Mémoire and Dennis Rasin Dadre and this year's Guest Artistic Director - Sébastien Daucé’s own group, Ensemble Correspondances.
£5 Tickets available to Young friends (plus £0.98 handling fee per ticket) are available for the following concerts (limited availability).
FRI 11 MAY
At the World's Courts, Le Poème Harmonique
“Two hours of spice and delight” (Le Monde)
7.30pm | St John's Smith Square
SAT 12 MAY
Versailles
This programme was created after Fuoco E Cenere’s participation in the hugely popular Canal + programme
7.15pm | St John's Smith Square
Paris-Madras
Two cultures, two religions, a common poetry. Musicians come together from both the Western and Indian Classical traditions in this late-night feature
9.45pm | St John's Smith Square
SUN 13 MAY
Pour le Souper du Roi
The Bach Players invite audiences to enjoy music fit for a King
3.00pm | St Peter's Eaton Square
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
La Nuova Musica revisit the edge of Baroque, with guest singers Iestyn Davis, Sophie Bevan and Rebecca Bottone
7.00pm | St John's Smith Square
TUE 15 MAY
OAE Experience and RAM Baroque Ensemble
Contrasting two generations of French composers with music from F.Couperin and Rameau
1.05pm | St John's Smith Square
WED 16 MAY
Un Hommage à Lully with Mezzo Soprano Lucile Richardot
7.15pm | St George's, Hanover Square
Un Hommage à Louis Couperin
Exploring the music of Louis Couperin, which still charms audiences today. Featuring young artists, Duo Coloquintes
9.45pm | St George's. Hanover Square
THU 17 MAY
Les Hommages
Arnaud de Pasquale, harpsichordist, tells us how Rameau, Couperin and Forqueray celebrated their musical peers through the music they wrote.
10.00pm | St John's Smith Square
FRI 18 MAY
Vous avez dit brunettes?
Les Kapsbergirls bring a programme of ‘Airs de cour’ light in character but strongly authentic
1.05pm | St John's Smith Square
Le Printemps
Doulce Mémoire perform Claude Le Jeune’s ground-breaking work, Le Printemps, which bridges the gap between renaissance and baroque styles
7.15pm | St John's Smith Square
Capriccio Stravagante Trio
Featuring Skip Sempé on Harpsichord, Dmitry Sinkovski on Violin and Josh Cheatham on Viola Da Gamba
9.45pm | St John's Smith Square
SAT 19 MAY
Skip Sempé
Skip Sempé presents a wide ranging programme for the Harspichord in this afternoon concert at St Peter’s Eaton Square
3.00pm | St Peter's Eaton Square
Le Concert Royal de la Nuit
Sébastien Daucé’s reconstruction of the music based on accounts of the 1653 spectacle that cemented Louis XIV’s position as the Sun King
7.30pm | St John's Smith Square