Together with his ensem­ble Le Caravansérail, Bertrand Cuiller – a lead­ing light of the MA Festival for sev­er­al sum­mers already – kicks off a ten­day ode to music.
The ode, a lyric poem usu­al­ly writ­ten to cel­e­brate spe­cial occa­sions, became more wide­ly appre­ci­at­ed when Henry Purcell set six­teen of them to music. Top soloists such as Reginald Mobley, Stephan MacLeod and Rachel Redmond show us why these works are con­sid­ered the best of the genre. 

Music by Henry Purcell (ca. 1659-­1695), John Blow (1649­-1708) & Matthew Locke (1621/22­-1677)