Premieres of Commissioned Music and Musique-Cordiale Winter Concerts
Works specially commissioned for Musique-Cordiale and premiered at the festival in recent years include pieces by Graham Ross and Cecilia McDowall. The festival is a uniquely European event with a southern French flavour. In 2005, Musique-Cordiale featured in a weekend of choral and instrumental performance as part of the October Canterbury Festival and its choir has also performed in an autumn weekend in Totnes, Devon. Since then, an annual winter concert in London has allowed participants to meet again and to perform for a wider audience. Along with "seasonal" works such as The Messiah and Christmas Carols, winter concerts allow Musique-Cordiale to 're-premiere' pieces commissioned for the summer festival in France.
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