They will perform on 9, 10 and 11 November in Modena and Vignola. The festival gets under way on 14 September as the group La Reverdie serves up a programme dedicated to “knowledge” and looking at how music and philosophy influenced each other in the Middle Ages. It is entitled “O tu chara Ciencia”.

On 20 September, the guitar and mandolin duo of Pavel Steidl and Dorina Frati will perform a programme of 18th-century music. On 23 September, clavichord player Enrico Baiano will perform music by Domenico Scarlatti. On the 27th it is the Ensemble Sonnerie under the direction of English violinist Monica Huggett offering an anthology of European music.

The Spanish group La Real Cámara will perform music from the 18th-century on 6 October. Also playing 18th-century music, the Trumpet Ensemble directed by Gabriele Casone will play on 9 October. On 16 October the festival offers the oratorio Santa Beatrice d´Este by Camilla de’ Rossi, to be performed by the Swiss group Musica Fiorita. The ensemble Odhecaton takes to the stage on the 20th with El Libro de Horas de Isabel de Castilla.

Closing out October, La Venexiana will perform a programme dedicated to madrigals by Gesualdo. Seven more concerts are planned for November, highlights of which include the debut of the reconstruction of a Concerto for Flute and Strings by Bach, to be performed by Enrico Gatti and the Ensemble Aurora on the 10th. On 15 November the Belgian vocal group Flemish Chapel will perform, while Chiara Bianchini’s Ensemble 415 will give the programme “Maria of Modena, Queen of England” with María Cristina Kiehr.

The festival ends on November 29 with the oratorio San Nicola by Bononcini performed by the Belgian group I Muffatti with the collaboration of the Concertgebouw of Bruges.