To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, we bring together two of his late masterpieces: Symphony no. 40 in G minor K550 and the Clarinet Concerto in A major K622, contrasted with earlier and less familiar works.

A sequence of vesper psalms and a Magnificat richly scored for solo voices, choir and five-part strings. They come from a collection published by Biber in 1693.

Savadi means ‘in an another way’ in Latvian, and the group is unique in performing the Baroque repertory for one and two sopranos with the beautiful and flexible accompaniment of the Italian triple harp. In this programme they contrast intense and dramatic solos and duets by Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Barbara Strozzi and others with music from seventeenth-century England, including songs and dialogues by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Richard Dering, John Coprario and Henry Purcell.

Bach’s Mass in B minor is probably the greatest religious work from the Baroque period. It has its origins in a separate Sanctus written for a Christmas service at St Thomas’s church in Leipzig in 1724 and a Kyrie and Gloria written for the Dresden court in 1733.