65th Little Missenden Festival 3rd -12th October 2025


The 2025 Festival (our 65th) has been taking shape over the past few months and we are now very pleased to present an early look at what should be an immensely enjoyable programme of events to brighten the autumn. In addition to talks and poetry, there will be an exciting variety of music with performances of real quality in the intimate and evocative surroundings of the 10th-century church of St John the Baptist.

We will keep you updated over the coming months with more background on our Facebook and Bluesky social media and through emails, and further details of the events will soon be published on our website. As usual our brochure will be available in July with booking opening from early August but, in the meantime, please don't hesitate to email us if you have any questions. 

We hope you will find much of interest and please keep your diaries free!
 


The Monteverdi String Band with Hannah Ely (sop) – madrigals and instrumental music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries

Friday 3 October at 8.00pm


Art Lecture: Joanna Cannon on Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350, exhibition at the National Gallery (until 22 June)
Saturday 4 October at 3.00pm
 

Jazz Evening with Zoe Rahman (piano) and friends
Saturday 4 October at 8.00pm

Piatti String Quartet – British music and poetry reflecting our relationship with nature and the landscape
Sunday 5 October 12.00pm

Piatti Quartet and Huw Watkins (piano) with music by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Shostakovich
Sunday 5 October at 3.00pm

Rebeca Omordia (piano) – a rich kaleidoscope of music by African composers
Tuesday 7 October at 8.00pm

Gould Piano Trio with trios by Haydn (no44 in E), Rebecca Clarke and Schubert (in E flat, op100)
Wednesday 8 October at 8.00pm

Tamsin Elliott (harp, accordion, flute), Tarek Elazhary (oud) and Rowan Elliott (fiddle) explore connections between English & Arabic folk music
Thursday 9 October at 8.00pm

Galliard Ensemble – a feast of music for wind instruments by Mozart, Nielsen, Barber, Grainger and Arnold
Friday 10 October at 8.00pm

Emily MacGregor, writer, music historian and broadcaster, in conversation with Thomas Hyde
Saturday 11 October at 3.00pm

Stile Antico celebrate their 20th birthday with Renaissance polyphony by composers including Josquin, Palestrina, Byrd and Victoria
Saturday 11 October at 8.00pm

Chelys Viol Consort perform Orlando Gibbons – “The best hand in England” - in his 400th anniversary year
Sunday 12 October at 3.00pm

Hey for Christmas”: seasonal music under Cromwell with Siglo de Oro and the Spinacino Consort
Friday 5 December at 8.00pm