Autumn Festival 2023

This is a special event featuring the hugely popular collaboration of leading poet, author and raconteur, Chris Tutton with harpist, Anne Denholm, who served as Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales from 2015-2019, in a programme of words and semi-improvised music.

An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart's formative trips to Italy, from the author of Mozart's Women and Handel in London.

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry.

This year's Eton Boys' Concert opens with the College Chapel Choir giving the first performance of a composition written by Viscount Linley to mark The King's Coronation.

Tonight we begin our programme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the enchanted woodlands of Mendelssohn's incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This playful overture is partnered with a contemporaneous selection of songs written by a composer who was deeply inspired by Mendelssohn: Prince Albert. He composed them for performance at Windsor Castle and they have been brilliantly orchestrated for this premiere performance by Paul Mealor and sung by leading tenor Andrew Staples.

The Windsor and Eton Choral Society (WECS) gave its first public performance in Windsor in 1837 making it one of the six oldest Choral Societies in the country.  

All Dance Ballet Company is delighted to bring this fabulous family favourite to Windsor Festival. A stunning mix of ballet and circus, much loved characters and superb music brings the famous tale to life in this magical production.

Bestselling author and Royal historian Sally Bedell Smith offers new insights and revelations about a couple whose character, courage, and mutual devotion resonate in today's world.

Part self-help and part-memoir, this is the ultimate guide to walking yourself happy physically and mentally, by one of the UK's favourite TV personalities.

The Figurine is the brand new novel from the No 1 Sunday Times author of The Island Victoria Hislop. Multi-million copy bestselling author returns with the captivating tale of one woman's quest to come to terms with her family's brutal past.

Leading international concert organist and Windsor resident Thomas Trotter re-launches the recently restored three-manual pipe organ of Windsor Parish Church of St John the Baptist in a scintillating blaze of glory, with a concert highlighting the instrument's varied orchestral tonal palette as well as its brute power.

Conducted by John Rutter himself, this performance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates two of his pieces with works by another great British composer Vaughan Williams.