Following on from their sparkling debut in York last December, we are delighted to welcome the acclaimed French baroque ensemble La Palatine back to our stage in a programme marking the accession of the Bourbons to the Spanish throne in 1700. Celebrating the new Italianate spirit as it spread through Spain, La Palatine offers a festive and colourful range of different musical genres: acrobatic sonatas, dancing cantatas, guitar pieces. The highlight of the programme will be Nebra’s sacred cantatas, played and enjoyed from Europe, all the way to Guatemala.