The concerts take place in a variety of locations ranging from the Cultural Centre and the churches of Sablé to the churches of neighbouring villages and the stables and grounds of the château.

The Festival opens with Handel’s Water Music and Bach’s Orchestral Suites performed by Emmanuelle Haïm’s Le Concert d’Astrée, and closes with Denis Raisin-Dadre conducting Doulce Mémoire in a programme entitled “Folias de Cuba”.

Other offerings include Gaspar Sanz’s Sones de Palacio y danzas de rasgueado (with the Laberintos Ingeniosos ensemble), Luigi Rossi’s La Lyra d’Orfeo (L’Arpeggiata), Zelenka’s Missa Votiva (Collegium 1704), “A Trip Through Seventeenth-Century Italy” (music by Frescobaldi, Rognoni, Marini, Gabrieli and Corelli performed by Les Basses Réunies), Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (La Chapelle Rhénane), Marais’s Les Violes du Roi Soleil (Hesperion XXI), a recital of Scarlatti sonatas by harpsichordist Bertrand Cuiller, Charpentier’s Tristes Déserts (Il Seminario Musicale), Marco Marazzoli’s sacred opera La vita humana, (Le Poème Harmonique and the Rouen chamber choir), Bach Sonatas by gambist Guido Balestracci and harpsichordist Blandine Rannou, “A Journey from Prague to Dresden” (works by Heinichen, Brentner, Tartini, Pisendel performed by Collegium Marianum) and “The Great Heroines of Seventeenth-Century France” featuring music by Collasse, Lully, Demarest, Destouches, and Charpentier, played by Le Concert Spirituel).

Further details from www.sable-culture.fr