The festival represents an excellent launching pad for Nordic groups specialising in this repertoire, even though the line-up always features interesting groups from all over Europe. The 2006 Festival consists of 15 concerts, as well as a variety of cultural events timed to coincide with this period. The Danish ensemble Ars Nova Copenhagen under the direction of Paul Hillier opens the Festival on 22 October in a program including Masses by Palestrina and Byrd.

On 25 October the viola ensemble I Petrarchisti with Ute Goedecke will present a program of madrigals. The Italian ensemble Tetraktys with Jill Feldman presents works by Dufay and his contemporaries on 28 October. The following day the Lithuanians Jauna Muzika and the Danish group Musica Ficta will present a joint program featuring Venetian music by Willaert, Gabrieli, Guerrero, Vivanco and others.

The duo Janice Santos-Michael Spengler (harpsichord and viola da gamba) will perform a programme of works by Philips, Cabezón, Ortiz, Mayone and Grandi on 4 November, followed on 6 November by the young Danish group Kantus Kobenhavn in works by Monteverdi, Grandi, Rovetta and others. The English group I Fagiolini under its director Robert Hollingworth will perform an all-Monteverdi program on 12 November.

Two days later Capella Hafniensis, a Danish group consisting of eight voices, will perform works by Vincentius Bertholusius, Bartholomaeus Stockmann and others. The Norwegian harpsichordist and Bach specialist Ketil Haugsand, will present a program of Renaissance and baroque music on 18 November. The soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr, with Mara Galassi, and Dolores Costoyas, will give a program of Renaissance songs on 19 November.

On 22 November the Swedish group Laude Novella perform a program of medieval songs, while on 25 November the Danish group Desperando Spero will give a program of renaissance dances. The festival concludes, on 26 November, with a program in which Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars, with Musica Ficta, perform works by Ockeghem (the 36-part Deo gratias), Josquin (the 24-part Qui habitat), Brumel (the 12-part Et ecce terra motus), Gombert (the 8-part Credo) and Tallis (his 40-part Spem in alium).