Selecting outstanding instruments from the splendours of the museum’s collection – some more than 400 years old, and often as spectacular to look at as they are to listen to – Rousset performs music that historically may have been played on them, revealing how developments in instrument design and in musical style are often interlinked.

On Thursday 22 August, Rousset plays music by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti and CPE Bach on three contrasting instruments: a superbly decorated polygonal virginal made by Alessandro Bertolotti in Verona in 1586; a single-keyboard harpsichord built around 1620 in Naples; and a beautifully painted double-keyboard harpsichord made in France by Luigi Baillon in 1755.