Message from Rachel Podger, Artistic Director

“It’s nearly 20 years since we launched Brecon Baroque Festival and still it grows and thrives in the lovely setting of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Our 2024 Festival, entitled French Connexions, focused on French baroque music and its considerable influence on composers and musicians throughout Europe at that time. It was a terrific project, studying the language of French Baroque music with its nuanced subtleties and, at times more inward-looking melancholia, exploring darker colours than the predominant styles in Germany, Italy and England. Onwards and upwards for 2025, when we meet again between 17 and 20 October. More on that soon!”