Xavier Díaz-Latorre, guitar, and Pedro Estevan, percussion, members of the group Laberintos peligrosos, will inaugurate the Festival on 30 August. The Italian ensemble Micrologus, formed by Patrizia Bovi, Adolfo Broegg, Goffredo Degli Esposti and Gabriele Russo, will follow the day after. On 1 September it will be the British Ensemble Plus Ultra’s turn, as well as Schola Antiqua from Spain, who will present the Officium Defunctorum, a rarely-performed piece by Sebastián de Vivanco, according to the festival’s technical director, Susana Rubio.

On 2 September the Festival will welcome Fernando Argenta accompanied by the Orquesta de Cámara de Siero (OCAS) in a family concert titled “The Great Baroque” aimed at both parents and children. Keyboard player Kenneth Weiss will add the final touch to the festival with a selection of harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his death.

The lectures will be given by Juan Carlos Asensio, whose paper is titled “Plainchant and Toledan chant: monodic practice in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain”; Michael Noone, who will present a paper on “Morales, Guerreo and Infantas: the rediscovery and performance of Spanish historical music”; and Cristina Diego, who will explain the “Transmission and dissemination of the manuscript repertory: the example of Cristóbal de Morales”. Master classes will be taken by Patricia Bovi, medieval chant; Pedro Estevan, percussion; Xavier Díaz-Latorre, guitar; and Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord.