An afternoon of music and words celebrating a different side of the French court of Louis XIV, a world of cultivated beauty, secrecy, devotion and quiet sensuality.

Liam Byrne (viola da gamba) and Clare O’Connell (cello) bring together cello and viola da gamba in music that breathes, whispers and glows, with storytelling by Nada Sharp, in a programme in which music by François Couperin and Marin Marais is entwined with the hushed voices of Linda Catlin smith and Hildur Guðnadottir, creating a performance of intimate dialogues and darkly glowing timbres.

This is an invitation into a private garden of sounds where history, touch and memory intertwine, and where beauty is felt as much as it is heard. Music shaped by patience, fragility and an almost tactile sense of time.