The Navarra quartet was in the end the only Bath Festival concert I got to. (For most of the rest of the Festival we were away from Bath.)
I considered going to hear Exaudi perform a programme that mixed Tudor and contemporary choral works. What put me off in the end was not the programme, but the order in which it was performed! The Tudor pieces and the others were jumbled together in groups of two or three. I’m happy to hear either the old or the new, but I find frequent switching between the two in a programme very demanding on me as a listener.
The Festival has been shortened this year. The main Festival in Bath lasted ten days, with a few concerts such as the Chew Magna one happening slightly earlier. Previously it’s been two weeks including a weekend at either end (sometimes finishing with a jazz or contemporary-themed weekend).