Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concertd’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practicalexperience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music.

Above all the group takes its lead from its founder-conductor’s dynamicmusicianship, inspired by Haïm’s imaginative engagement with the boldrhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works, andthe absolute conviction of her interpretations.

They make their WigmoreHall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, crowned by themajestic ‘Gran Partita’ for twelve wind instruments and double bass,probably written for the clarinettist Anton Stadler and a dozen othermusicians employed by Vienna’s Imperial Court Theatre.