Details for the 2012 Festival Coming Soon
The 2012 Flyer is in production and will be released shortly, along with the festival programme. Details will appear here as they are available. An outline of the 2012 Festival can be found here.
Other Festivals with which the BRCF is Linked
Festes Baroques
Visitors to France in the European summer may like to note a festival of Baroque music in the Bordeaux with which our Festival now has a formal link. It takes place over three weeks from late June to mid-July, and it combines music by the finest European artists with wine-tastings, French regional cuisine, and visits to splendid 18th-century chateaux in the region. The Director is Xavier Julien-Laferrière, who performed in our Festival this year with his ensemble Les Caractères. For information see the website www.festesbaroques.com
Stour Music Festival
Visitors to Great Britain in June are invited to check the website www.stourmusic.org.uk . There they will find information about the lively Stour Music Festival which is held over late June in the 15th-century Boughton Aluph Church, in the country near Ashford, Kent, about an hour east of London. It takes its name from the River Stour, which runs through Kent between Ashford and Canterbury. The concerts are given by well-known mostly British artists, such as The Academy of Ancient Music, Florilegium, Emma Kirkby, and the Deller Consort, but this year the Danish recorder player Michala Petri performed there with her husband, the lutenist Lars Hannibal, as well as the Polish consort Floripari. The Director is Mark Deller, and the festival was founded in 1963 by his father, the celebrated counter-tenor Alfred Deller. The country setting is beautiful, the church has excellent acoustics, and there is catering in a marquee on the site.