The soprano Lucie Minaudier, the mezzo Céleste Lejeune, the tenor Abel Zamora, and the bass Jonas Mordzinski—collectively the Aesthesis Quartet—join forces with the saxophonist Peter Corser in a kaleidoscopic celebration of birds. The program name-checks swans, nightingales, swallows, blackbirds, and bluebirds in selections by Orlando Gibbons, a favorite of James I; the prodigy Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, who enjoyed the patronage of Louis XIV; Pau (or Pablo) Casals, the legendary cellist and Catalan firebrand; and the Beatles, who need no introduction. The tour bounces around the southern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, winding up in Domme, a fortified hill town founded in 1281 by the warlike Philip the Bold. Numbered today among the most beautiful villages in France, Domme also has a reputation as “the Acropolis of the Périgord.” Expect great numbers of lucky expats who summer in the Dordogne to flock there for the music. —Matthew Gurewitsch