Join IT&T for the 1st concert in our 2025 Summer Concert Series. In this first concert baroque violinist Bojan Čičić explores the music of French composer and gamba player Marin Marais - an evening not to be missed!

Sonatas by Marini, Castello, Uccellini and Legrenzi; Toccatas by Storace and Frescobaldi; Theatrical Sinfonias by Cavalli and Monteverdi - curated by Christopher Bucknall

A musical journey over the Alps from Germany to Italy, highlighting radiant chromaticism through the instrumental tone colours of the cornetto, trombone, viola, violin, viola da gamba and organ - curated by Rachel Byrt.

Miserere mei in settings for high voices by Richard Delalande and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.  The solo lines of these highly evocative settings are set to form their own exquisite tracery across the vaults of Oxford's greatest ecclesiastical building.  Few works of the period speak more powerfully of the French way with vocal writing: a form of passionate and elevated speech, perhaps the most distinctive contribution of the French to musical manners of the 18th century, curated by Edward Higginbottom.

In this programme for flute, violin, cello, keyboard, we set off on an exploration of J.S. Bach’s ‘Das Musikalische Opfer’, based on a theme given to him as a challenge by KingFrederick II of Prussia, who was a flautist and keen musician himself.

In Medea’s Fury we will hear dramatic cantatas for soprano from the French baroque together with flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord. We will hear an array of fabulous cantatas, each telling this dramatic story from a different perspective, including Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s Le sommeil d’Ulisse, Nicolas Bernier’s Médée, and an extract from Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s Médée, curated by Jonathan Slade