Join us for an exceptional organ recital as part of our Baroque Music Festival with Scottish organists Caroline Cradock and John Kitchen at Greyfriars Kirk, one of Edinburgh’s most beautiful concert spaces. The programme will celebrate some of the great French composers for the organ, including François Couperin and his Gloria of the Messe pour Les Paroisses, which will be performed with plainsong choir. Come to hear French Baroque music and hidden gems!
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