The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music concert series in Highgate, London.

Enjoy an eighteenth-century themed supper after the concert, created by food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, which is included in the ticket price.

A wooden, single reed wind instrument, closely related to the clarinet, the basset horn was mostly heard in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Austria and Germany, with historical evidence dating the earliest known instruments to the 1760’s.

When Czech musicians Messrs Dworschak, David and Springer came to London in 1789 and performed at Vauxhall Gardens as a Basset Horn Trio, the instrument was relatively new to London. These mysterious and unusual sounding instruments with their colourful, earthy tones created great interest.

The trio will perform a concert of music by Mozart and his contemporaries.