The concert on 18 August features Fabordón, a group founded in 2000 by the lutenists Mabel Ruiz and Juanjo Monroy with a view to reviving and disseminating the 16th-18th century European repertoire for plucked string instruments. The ensemble will perform “Si d’amor pena sentís”, a programme reflecting through the vihuela, the baroque guitar, the theorbo and the human voice the evolution of Spanish and Italian composers from the Renaissance to the baroque.

The selection includes works by Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Marchetto Cara, Filippo Azzaiolo, Luis Venegas de Henestrosa, Diego Pisador, Miguel de Fuenllana, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Tarquinio Merula, Alessandro Grandi, Alessandro Piccinini, Santiago de Murcia and José Marín, as well as pieces from the Cancionero de Palacio. The following day La Encarnación is the venue for a concert by Quinteto Oblivión, a group specialising in a chamber repertoire which is less familiar to concert hall audiences – the string quintet.

The concert on 20 August will be given by Conductus Ensemble, a group founded and led by Andoni Sierra, which specialises in the performance and revival of German, English and Italian baroque works. The concert, devoted entirely to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, will include the Salve Regina for solo alto and the famous Stabat Mater. Opera and zarzuela are also represented in the festival, with appearances by the soprano Marta Ubieta, the tenor Mikeldi Atxalandabaso, the baritone José Manuel Díaz and the pianist Rubén Fernández Aguirre.

Less conventionally, the festival’s line-up of artists includes The Graffiti Classics, a string quartet whose members sing, dance and, above all, make the audience laugh. The closing concert will be given on 23 August by Concerto Delle Dame. The ensemble, made up of the sopranos Cristina Bayón and Rocío de Frutos, gambist Lixsania Fernández and theorbist Maria Luz Martínez, will perform the programme “Compositoras barrocas: del convento a la corte” (Female baroque composers: from the convent to the Court), with music by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Francesca Caccini, Elizabeth Claude Jacquete de la Guerre, Barbara Strozzi and Isabella Leonarda.