Leading UK choir and instrumental ensemble Armonico Consort has announced its 25th anniversary season.

It begins in Warwick on 26 September with a tour of its signature programme of Renaissance and Baroque choral masterpieces.  Supersize Polyphony 3: Venetian Blinders! is the third iteration of its hugely successful concert format that envelops the audience in a ‘surround sound’ of voices singing up to 40 individual parts.

Supersize Polyphony 3 features music by Venetian master Claudio Monteverdi and explores Venice’s magnetic influence on European composers of the day with a rarely-heard work by Catalan Francisco Valls (Missa Scala Aretina a 16) as well as Thomas Tallis’s spectacular Spem in Alium.  The tour then heads to Poole , Exeter and Malvern, and resumes in 2027 with more Cathedral concerts.

Other 25th anniversary season highlights include a first Wigmore Hall performance of The Forgotten Scarlatti – works by Francesco Scarlatti, a neglected genius of the famous dynasty.  Armonico Consort have become leading experts on Francesco Scarlatti’s choral music and their recordings and performances of his Messa a 16, Dixit Dominus and oratorio Daniele, have achieved worldwide recognition.

Later in the Season, Armonico performs some of the works that have become cornerstones of its repertoire over the past 25 years, including Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion (marking its 300th anniversary), Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and a concert of Mozart’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with soloist Edmund Taylor whose Bellot Ensemble is the current BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble.  There are also continuing collaborations in Italy, Spain and Mexico.

Tickets and details from armonico.org.uk