Mayo Musical is closely linked to its organizers’ important discographic work, and, as in previous festivals, this year’s concerts include some of the repertoire and performers featured in the label’s most recent and highly successful productions.

The festival will take place over four consecutive weekends, with concerts on Fridays and Saturdays. It opens on 4 May with a concert by Academia Musici dei Lumi in a programme of works by Mozart, Haydn and Clementi. The following day there will be a concert by Ensemble Nova Lux, performing a programme of 16th- century ensaladas.

The second weekend of the festival begins with an original programme of French music for pardessus (or treble viol, the smallest of the instruments in the viola de gamba family), performed by the group Gabinete Armónico. “Loving Mozart” is the title of the imaginative concert scheduled for Saturday 12 May, a production by the Teatro Estudio of San Sebastián, featuring Anne Landa in a performance of a selection of works by Mozart adapted for the accordion.

On the third weekend of the Festival, the group Forma Antiqva will perform the programme “Under Castration”, featuring Xavier Sabata as the countertenor and actor who interprets the role of the great castrato singer Francesco Bernardi, Il Senesino, in an atmosphere of Baroque cabaret, with arias by Handel, Porpora, Veracini and Hasse.

The concert on Saturday 19 May features Estil Concertant with the soprano Isabel Monar in an attractive programme of arias by Mozart and his contemporary, the Valencian composer Martín y Soler, whose fame at the end of the 18th century was as great as - indeed perhaps even greater than - that of the genius of Salzburg himself.

The last weekend is devoted to an organ recital, “Cinco siglos de música ibérica para órgano” (Five centuries of Iberian organ music) by Jesús González López. Finally, this year’s Mayo Musical closes with the Cuarteto Terpsícore in an original programme of music for four guitars, including works by Joan and Josep Pla, Duarte, Bogdanovic and Moreno Torroba, among others.