Stour Festival 2025

Stour Music

Stour Music, now in its 62st year, has established its reputation for the high quality of music performed by artists from all over the world, and for the welcome of a warm festival atmosphere.

Stour Festival Orchestra & Choir - Stour Music 2025: Mendelssohn and the Bachs

Mendelssohn and the Bachs

Saraband

Saraband is an ensemble that expands from just two violins to a larger group, specialising in music that would have been heard in the grand houses, sitting rooms, coffee houses, taverns and streets of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Saraband - Love after the Storm

Love after the Storm

ApotropaïK - Stour Music 2025: ApotropaïK – Bella Donna

Bella Donna

Solomon's Knot

Solomon’s Knot is “one of the UK’s most innovative and imaginative ensembles” (The Observer).

Solomon's Knot - Stour Music 2025: Solomon's Knot – Bach's Angels

Bach's Angels

I Fagiolini

I Fagiolini is internationally renowned for its innovative and thought - provoking productions: Handel with masks, Purcell with puppets (with Peter Wilson, MBE); The Full Monteverdi and Betrayal: a polyphonic crime drama (immersive theatre directed...

I Fagiolini - Stour Music 2025: I Fagiolini – Colossal Baroque

Colossal Baroque

Hanse Pfeifferey - Stour Music 2025: Hanse Pfeifferey & I Fagiolini – Party like it’s 1525

Party like it’s 1525

Fretwork

"Fretwork is the finest viol consort on the planet" - Stephen Pettitt, The London Evening Standard.

Fretwork - Stour Music 2025: Fretwork & Iestyn Davies – Gibbons 400

My Days - Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly

Apollo's Cabinet

Apollo’s Cabinet are an early music ensemble founded at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2018. Since then they have grown in size and perform with a flexible lineup to offer versatility and variety in programming.

Apollo's Cabinet - Stour Music 2025: Apollo's Cabinet – Re:invention Handel & Bach

Re:invention Handel & Bach

The Gesualdo Six

The Gesualdo Six is an award-winning British vocal ensemble comprising some of the UK’s finest consort singers.

The Gesualdo Six - Stour Music 2025: The Gesualdo Six – English Motets

English Motets

Boxwood & Brass

Praised for ‘spectacular playing’ (Early Music Today) and ‘button-bright performances’ (Gramophone), Boxwood & Brass is a group of exceptional period wind players dedicated to chamber music and Harmoniemusik of the Classical and early-Romantic periods.

Festival Finale: Vienna - Music by Haydn & Beethoven

Barokksolistene - ALEHOUSE SESSIONS

Alehouse Sessions

Barokksolistene - Purcell's Playground

Purcell's Playground

Liberata Collective

Liberata Collective is an opera company producing shows in Baroque Gesture, collectively staged by the opera singers per 18th century practice

Liberata Collective - Hande - Orlando

Handel - Orlando

Lyons Mouth

Music for Two Choirs (1560 - 2023)

Handel - Fireworks and more

Fiesta Flamenco

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Mendelssohn and the Bachs

Stour Festival Orchestra & Choir