Anneke Scott is one of Britain’s leading exponents of the natural horn, renowned for her work in period instrument ensembles such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the Sixteen and her own Etesian Ensemble. She has been appearing at the Festival since she was a student, most recently in Michael Haydn’s horn concerto during the 2010 Christmas concert. She is joined by Matthew Truscott, one of the most sought-after violinists of the younger generation, and Steven Devine, whose performance of the Bach’s Goldberg Variations was a memorable start to the 2012 Festival. Steven will be using the historic Broadwood piano at Boxford, which proved its worth in David Owen Norris’s recital last April.

Brahms’s Trio in E flat, op. 40 for horn, violin and piano, composed in 1865 in memory of his mother, is one of the last great works for the natural horn, memorably evoking nature and the hunt. There will also be a delightful trio by Heinrich Herzogenberg (1843-1900), an Austrian friend and follower of Brahms, and violin and horn solos by Schubert and Schumann.