Extraordinary People and Extraordinary Music – the OAE Experience ensemble perform music by three remarkable composers from the classical period; Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Maddalena Lombardini, and Franz Joseph Haydn.

The afternoon also feature a performance by the Istante Collective with Nicola Barbagli (oboes, recorders & accordion), Flora Curzon (violins), Johan Lofving (guitars & theorbo, John-Henry Baker (double bass, violone, spoons & percussion) performing the music of Matteis, Haydn, Bartok and Sinclair.

Resident at the Southbank Centre, Associate Orchestra at Glyndebourne and Artistic Associate at Kings Place, the OAE is one of the world’s leading ensembles specialising in period instrument performance, playing music on instruments or replicas from the time the music was written. The orchestra is led today by Margaret Faultless, one of the OAE’s three leaders who has been mentoring the young musicians on the scheme.