Event Type : Festival Of Baroque

Concert of baroque flute and violin trio sonatas to brighten your January morning!

Includes music by Bach, Quantz and Telemann.

Tickets: Adults £15. Members, Friends £12. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

A contest for the best poet of the baroque era.

Catherine Simmonds, Rosie King, Deborah Jones and Robert Mules will defend Aphra Behn, John Donne, Robert Herrick and Alexander Pope, respectively. You, the audience, will then vote for The Best!

Tickets: Adults £5. Members, Friends and U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

A workshop exploring JS Bach’s solo music.

Eminent cellist Emily Burridge and baroque specialist violinist Emma-Marie Kabanova work with students to discover the challenges of the master composer of the baroque solos.

Tickets: Adults £12. Members, Friends £10. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

Music for unaccompanied baroque violin by Bach and his contemporaries, alongside compositions by Emma-Marie.

Includes music by Bach, Quantz and Telemann.

Tickets: Adults £12. Members, Friends £10. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

Nigel Wyatt will explore the assemblies in 18 century Shaftesbury, together with the musical and theatrical performances that enlivened the cultural life of the town.

Along the way he will shed some new light on the mystery surrounding a theatre playbill that was found in the thatch of a house in Shaftesbury advertising a performance of the Beaux Stratagem.

Tickets: Adults £12. Members, Friends £10. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

Songs and instrumental music from 17th and 18th century England.

Michael Sanderson, baritone, baroque violin and viola, and Katharine May on harpsichord – from Cumbria – will play music by Dowland, Purcell, Handel and Haydn.

Tickets: Adults £15. Members, Friends £12. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

The life story of 1600s English composer Henry Purcell (Michael Ball) unfolds in a 1960s actor’s (Simon Callow) research. 

A Tony Palmer film of 1995.

Tickets: Adults £7.50. Members, Friends £6.50. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

JS Bach’s Suite in G major has been called ‘a pinnacle of musical elegance and simplicity’.

Here, Emily Burridge will play this cello masterpiece and explain it in the context of Bach’s life.

Tickets: Adults £12. Members, Friends £10. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

Wessex Baroque Collective, founded in 2024, brings music to delight.

Includes Angela Hicks (soprano), Emma-Marie Kabanova (Baroque violin), Christine Land (Baroque cello) and David Gostick (harpsichord).

Tickets: Adults £15. Members, Friends £12. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.

Baroque music by female composers played by Salisbury’s period-instrument ensemble.

A treat of music that is little known – written by women of the time.

Tickets: Adults £15. Members, Friends £12. U18s free.

Festival Ticket – access to all events: Adults £90. Members & Friends £75. U18s free. Book your Festival Ticket here.