What better way to open the 2024 Chipping Campden Music Festival than with a “fanfare” programme from The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment featuring their remarkable trumpeter David Blackadder. The OAE have been at the forefront of historically-informed performance practice ever since their formation in 1986, but they are no museum-piece ensemble, rather a group of musicians inspired by an era that saw huge advances in scientific, philosophical and artistic development.

Purcell — Trumpet Sonata in D major Z. 850
Purcell — Trio Sonata No.1 in B minor Z. 802
Biber — Sonata No.4 in C for Trumpet and Strings
Purcell — Three parts upon a Ground Z. 731
Handel — Trumpet Suite from the Water Music
Handel — Concerto Grosso in B flat major op.6 No.7
Telemann — Fantasia 6 in G major TWV 40:31