Edition 2024

Early Music Day takes place every year on 21 March, at the initiative of REMA. This celebration of more than a thousand years of music, through concerts and events taking place simultaneously around the world, is an opportunity for Europeans to (re)discover our musical heritage!

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SEI SOLO

21/03/2024 19:30 CET

SEI SOLO On-site

N&B MARETERRA FESTIVAL Italy
CHIESA SAN DOMENICO, Strada Palazzo dell'Intendenza, 22, 70122 BARI
H.I.F. von BIBER
Passacaglia in sol minore

J.S. BACH
Sonata n. 1 in sol minore (BWV 1001)
Partita n. 2 in re minore (BWV 1004)

Musicians
BORIS BEGELMAN (solo violin)
La Serenata Ritrovata

20/03/2024 20:00 CET

La Serenata Ritrovata Online

La Risonanza/ Associazione Hendel Italy
Sala del Cenacolo of the Leonardo da Vinci National Science and Technology Museum in Milan, Via San Vittore, 21, , 20123 Milano
After extensive research and collaboration among a musicologist, composer, musician, and poet-translator, Johann Sebastian Bach's Serenade BWV 66a, "Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück," is revived! Unheard since December 10th, 1718.
Musicians
Federica Napoletani - soprano
Angela Hyun Jung Oh - alto
Karol Kusz - tenore
Valerio Zanolli - basso
Andrea Mion, Elisabeth Passot - oboes
Giovanni Battista Graziadio - bassoon
Jorge Jimenez, Ulrike Slowik, Rossella Borsoni, Beatrice Scaldini, Joanna Dobrowolska, Davide Medas, Laura Cavazzuti - violins
Livia Baldi, Zeno Scattolin - violas
Caterina Dell’Agnello, Agnieszka Oszanca - cellos
Guisella Massa – violone
Fabio Bonizzoni – harpsichord and conducting 
Il Lautenwerk, un cembalo raro

21/03/2024 18:00 CET (21/03/2024 18:00 CET)

Il Lautenwerk, un cembalo raro On-site

Academia Montis Regalis Italy
Sala Ghislieri , Mondovì - Cuneo /Italy, Via Francesco Gallo 7, 12084 Mondovì
Harpsichord Recital by Franz Silvestri 
Musicians
Franz Silvestri 
La Guitarre Royalle

21/03/2024 21:00 CET

La Guitarre Royalle On-site

Associazione MusicaMente Italy
Oratorio Santa Cita , Via Valverde 3 , Palermo , 90146 Palermo
The programme 'La Guitarre Royalle' brings together music from the entire production of Francesco Corbetta (Pavia 1615 - Paris 1681). Starting with his first Bolognese print of 1639 up to the second Parisian edition of the Guitarre Rqyalle of 1674, the apex of his production, which combines in a refined manner the Italian style with its Spanish influences, with the French style, well assimilated by the Pavia composer during his stay in Versailles in the Lullian period. 

A witness, with his printed collections, to the compositional evolution of guitar music from a simple chordal accompaniment to music as elaborate and complex as any other instrument, Corbetta reaches the apex of this instrumental wisdom with the pieces for two guitars. It is not a question of a solo guitar accompanied by the second, but rather of two guitars in dialogue, whose summed chords create real 'harmonic clusters' rich in overtones, and whose melodic lines s1 move m1 counterpoint. 
Musicians
I Bassifondi, Gabriele Miracle: percussion 
Ror Zuljan: baroque guitar 
Simone V allerotonda: baroque guitar and direction
Airy vagueness and sacred modulations

21/03/2024 18:00 CET (21/03/2024 18:00 CET)

Airy vagueness and sacred modulations On-site

Conservatorio di Musica "G. Rossini" Italy
Museo Nazionale Rossini, Via Passeri, 72, 61121 Pesaro e Urbino
On Thursday 21 March, the Rossini Conservatoire celebrates the European Day of Early Music 2024 at the Rossini National Museum. Instituted by the European Community on the day of J. S. Bach's birth (1685) and the spring equinox, the celebration aims to ideally unite Europe in the sign of its millenary musical tradition (from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century), symbolised by the great Leipzig, and at a moment of rebirth to life marked by the shift of the Sun's hemisphere.

For the occasion, students and teachers of the CRoMA (Conservatorio Rossini Musica Antica) ensemble are proposing a concert entitled Ariose vaghezze e Sacre modulazioni, ovvero la monodia accompagnata del Seicento italiano per arciliuto e voci.
Musicians
Prof. Pietro Prosser archlute
Giulia Silvestri, Laura Luciani, Jungmi Park sopranos
Music for a while – Dilettanti eruditi e mecenati

21/03/2024 18:00 CET

Music for a while – Dilettanti eruditi e mecenati On-site

Conservatorio statale di Musica "G. B. Martini", Bologna Italy
Sala Bossi del Conservatorio "G. B. Martini", Piazza Rossini 1, 40100 Bologna
The concert celebrates the Early Music Day and the donation of a virginal and several recorders and traversos to the Conservatorio by a Bolognese music lover and amateur player. According to the quality of the instruments, the concert is entirely dedicated to the English music (J. Dowland, Th. Morley, H. Purcell, W. Lawes).
Musicians
Ensemble di Musica antica del Conservatorio “G. B. Martini”
Cleonice Sabrina Bortolotti, Margherita Minardi, Amelia Rossi Fioravanti, Ufuk Aslan, Luca Fanteria, voices
Stefano Gerard, So-Yeong Baik, violins
Francesco Lussignoli, Daniele Salvatore, traverso and recorder
Federica Bettelli, Luca Piccini, viol da gamba
MIchele Barbieri, Michela De Pasquale, Laura di Cera,  Yui Mochizuki, Giuditta Pizzilli,  harpsichord
Haydn’s Seven Last Words

13/03/2024 20:45 CET (13/03/2024 20:45 CET)

Haydn’s Seven Last Words On-site

Associazione Filarmonica di Rovereto Italy
Sala Filarmonica, Corso Antonio Rosmini 86, 38068 Rovereto
The young international period instrumentalists of Theresia Orchestra embark on a poignant journey for their next orchestral residency in Lodi, exploring Haydn’s original orchestral version of his masterpiece “The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross”.  Commissioned by a Spanish priest in 1786 for a Good Friday service in an underground church in Cádiz, Haydn was asked to compose a series of slow, meditative “sonatas,” each relating to one of the seven last words of Christ during the crucifixion, as outlined in the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John. Interwoven with reflective spoken word mediations, Alfredo Bernardini will lead Theresia Orchestra in this meaningful work.
Musicians
Theresia Orchestra
Alfredo Bernardini - conductor
Concerto Il sonar cantando: Girolamo Frescobaldi

21/03/2024 18:00 CET

Concerto Il sonar cantando: Girolamo Frescobaldi Online

Conservatorio di musica "Giuseppe Verdi" di Milano Italy
Chiesa San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Corso Magenta 15, 20122 Milano
Among the musicians who were active in the first half of the seventeenth century, Girolamo Frescobaldi (Ferrara, 1583 - Rome, 1643)stands out not only as an organist whose virtuosity and technical skill were superlative and incomparable, but also as a formidable musician who was able to interpret the artistic stirrings in the musical language of his time and to incorporate them, in an effective and significant way, into his vast production for keyboard instruments. 
Frescobaldi not only inaugurates a new manner of playing but also illustrates a new refined “modus componendi” through a language of astonishing modernity. 
The concert offers pages taken from his printed (Libro I Toccatas, Libro II Toccatas) and unpublished (Chigi Codex ) music collections.
 It is music that seduce by its spontaneity, by its freshness, by the naturalness of the lyric melodic gesture. 
In fact, the pages of the illustrious organist enjoy the luminous and fascinating sonorities of a magnificent example of Italian organ building art, belonging to one of the most famous dynasties of Brescian builders, active in the years between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the Antegnati. In particular, it is an ancient organ built by Gian Giacomo Antegnati in 1554, located, in the mirifica Church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan.
These pages are so imbued with a great expressive intensity and a poignant grace that, even today, they amaze us with their relevance. They are compositions permeated by a magic of sounds and an emotional tension that seems to never end.
Musicians
Ivana Valotti, Organ professor (at Conservatorio di musica "Giusepe Verdi" di Milano)
Haydn’s Seven Last Words

14/03/2024 21:00 CET (14/03/2024 21:00 CET)

Haydn’s Seven Last Words On-site

Associazione Angelo Marini Italy
Basilica di San Giovanni Evangelista, Viale Farini, Ravenna
The young international period instrumentalists of Theresia Orchestra embark on a poignant journey for their next orchestral residency in Lodi, exploring Haydn’s original orchestral version of his masterpiece “The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross”.  Commissioned by a Spanish priest in 1786 for a Good Friday service in an underground church in Cádiz, Haydn was asked to compose a series of slow, meditative “sonatas,” each relating to one of the seven last words of Christ during the crucifixion, as outlined in the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John. Interwoven with reflective spoken word mediations, Alfredo Bernardini will lead Theresia Orchestra in this meaningful work.
Musicians
Theresia Orchestra
Alfredo Bernardini - conductor
Archbishop of Ravenna - narrator
Haydn’s Seven Last Words

12/03/2024 21:00 CET (12/03/2024 21:00 CET)

Haydn’s Seven Last Words On-site

Teatro alle Vigne Italy
Chiesa di San Francesco, Piazza Ospitale, 26900 Lodi
The young international period instrumentalists of Theresia Orchestra embark on a poignant journey for their next orchestral residency in Lodi, exploring Haydn’s original orchestral version of his masterpiece “‘The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross”.  
Commissioned by a Spanish priest in 1786 for a Good Friday service in an underground church in Cádiz, Haydn was asked to compose a series of slow, meditative “sonatas,” each relating to one of the seven last words of Christ during the crucifixion, as outlined in the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John. Interwoven with reflective spoken word mediations, Alfredo Bernardini will lead Theresia Orchestra in this meaningful work. 
Musicians
Theresia Orchestra
Alfredo Bernardini - conductor
Antonio Messina - narrator
TODOS LOS MALES

20/03/2024 18:00 CET

TODOS LOS MALES On-site

Centro di Musica Antica Ghislieri - Fondazione Teatro Fraschini Italy
Cinema Teatro Politeama, Corso Camillo Benso Cavour, 20, 27100 Pavia PV
Presentation with the artists and then film projection of the movie TODOS LOS MALES by Simone Derai based on the opera LES INCAS DU PEROU by J. P. Rameau that took place at Rimini for the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana on October 2022.


Musicians
Juana Myriam Chero Tarazona - Maria Elena Soto Chero (Phani) - Marco Ciccullo (Carlos) - Cristian Alexis Alarcon Jara (Huascar) - Ekaterina Protsenko (Soprano) Nicholas Scott (Tenore) - Renato Dolcini (Baritono)
Coro Universitario del Collegio Ghislieri - Luca Colombo | Choir leader
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
Giulio Prandi | Conductor

Production: Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, Anagoor, Kublai Film
Director: Simone Derai 
Photography: Giulio Favotto  
Inaugural Concert of the 6th International Festival of Early Music 'Timeless Notes

21/03/2024 11:11 CET (21/03/2024 11:11 CET)

Inaugural Concert of the 6th International Festival of Early Music 'Timeless Notes On-site

Note senza tempo festival internazionale di musica antica Italy
Sassari (Sardinia - Italy), Piazza Cappuccini, 1, , 07100 Sassari
On World Early Music Day, the festival opens its 6th edition with two extraordinary cantatas by J.S. Bach 
Cantata No. 131
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir

Cantata No. 106
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit - Actus Tragicus
Musicians
La Calandria Ensemble
ALIDA OLIVA soprano
BIANCA SIMONE alto
JIANGCHEN HE tenor 
DECIO BIAVATI bass

WILLELM PEERIK organ and direction
Il Tessuto dei Sogni / The Fabric of Dreams

21/03/2024 17:00 CET

Il Tessuto dei Sogni / The Fabric of Dreams On-site

ISIS CARDUCCI - DANTE Italy
ISIS Carducci-Dante, Aula Magna, Via Giustiniano 3, 34133 Trieste
It's a transcription of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Shakespeare in three languages: English, Italian and Triestine dialect, written and played by the school's classical students. The play is accompanied by the music of The Fairy Queen by Purcell, played by the school's early music students. 
Musicians
50 students of Classical and Musical High School 'Carducci-Dante' of Trieste (aged 16-19) 
Philosophy teacher Mrs Elsa Zibai, English teacher Mrs Anna Pettener, 
Early music MM Teodora Tommasi, Arstistic supervision MM Fanni Cannelles (Accademia Ars Nova) 

Concerto di Pasqua

21/03/2024 21:00 CET

Concerto di Pasqua On-site

Centro di Musica Antica Ghislieri Italy
Basilica di San Michele Maggiore, Piazza San Michele, 27100 Pavia PV
Giulio Prandi will propose, together with Coro Ghislieri and the Basso Continuo of the ensemble, a new program around the music of N. Jommelli and D. Perez. A musical match between the father of Neapolitan opera music of the XVIII century who became famous all over Europe, and the most rappresentative composer of sacred music of the same period who ended the carrer in a far european state, Portugal.
Musicians
Alessandro Nasello, Yoan Otano - FAGOTTI
Maria Cecilia Farina - ORGANO

CORO GHISLIERI
DIRETTORE - Giulio Prandi
Festa della Musica Antica: Accade anche qui

21/03/2024 18:00 CET

Festa della Musica Antica: Accade anche qui On-site

Diapason Consortium Italy
Auditorium San Dionigi, Piazza Martiri della Liberazione n. 12, 27029 Vigevano
A tribute concert to Early Music in Vigevano, a beautiful town close to Milan both geographically and historically. Here, during the Renaissance, the Sforza Court moved from Milan; moreover, important figures such as Ludovico il Moro, Leonardo da Vinci and Donato Bramante lived here. The venue for the concert is the splendid San Dionigi Auditorium - a deconsecrated Baroque church that represents the temple of music in Vigevano - located a few meters from the fabulous Piazza Ducale.
Musicians
Maratona Musicale with "Bottega dei Suoni"
Bach's harpsichord concerts

21/03/2024 09:10 CET (21/03/2024 09:10 CET)

Bach's harpsichord concerts On-site

Amici della Musica di Padova Italy
Auditorium Pollini, Via Carlo Cassan 17, 35121 Padova
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto n. 5 BWV 1050, Concerto  BWV 1053, Concerto BWV 1057
G.F. Händel: Trio Sonata op. 5 n. 4 HWV 399
Musicians
AbChordis Ensemble, Baroque ensemble
Thomas Kügler, Traverso and  Recorder
Cecilia Massenzana, Recorder
Rahel Wittling, Violin
Andrea Buccarella, Harpsichord and Conductor
Early Music Day - L'Aquila 2024

22/03/2024 11:15 CET (22/03/2024 11:15 CET)

Early Music Day - L'Aquila 2024 On-site

Associazione Musicale Aquila Altera Italy
Palazzetto dei Nobili, L'Aquila, Palazzetto dei Nobili, piazza Santa Margherita, 67100 L'Aquila
Presentation event of the early music festival "I Concerti di Euterpe" and concert by violinists Sara MELONI and Gabriele PRO entitled: "Due violini sotto falso nome". On the program will be the "Six Duo Concertans pour deux violons Composés par L.Boccherini, oeuvre 37ª" published in Paris Chez Mr. Barbieri, which are actually six duets for two violins composed by sardinian violinist Giuseppe Agus. The rediscovery of this important 18th century composer is due to Maestro Enrico di Felice, who accidentally came across Agus' music in the early 1990s.
Musicians
Sara Meloni - Gabriele Pro, violins
Follie Barocche

21/03/2024 11:30 CET (21/03/2024 11:30 CET)

Follie Barocche On-site

Liceo Musicale Statale "Margherita di Savoia" - Napoli Italy
Salita Pontecorvo n.72, 80 135 Napoli
"Follie barocche is a musical journey on an anciet theme "la Follia", beautifully though for the european early music day. The music by J.S.Bach, A. Corelli, G.F.Haendel, A. Scarlatti, performed with our voices and on our musical instruments, recalls to original sounds and particular music languages, where past and present harmonize like in a cream to the original sounds.
Musicians
Nocerino Francesco, Amato Angela, Caiazza Ida, Greco Elisa, Borrelli Claudio
O ZELO D'AMORE - La Passione di Cristo nelle opere modenesi di Bernardo Pasquini

21/03/2024 21:00 CET (21/03/2024 21:00 CET)

O ZELO D'AMORE - La Passione di Cristo nelle opere modenesi di Bernardo Pasquini On-site

I Madrigalisti Estensi APS - Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola Italy
Duomo di Modena, Corso Duomo, 41121 Modena MO, 41121 Modena
The concert celebrates the Early Music Day and the Holy Week with the Cantata Hor ch'il ciel fra densi orrori and some arias from the Oratorio La Sete di Christo by Bernardo Pasquini, whose manuscripts are preserved at the Estense Library in Modena.
Musicians
I Madrigalisti Estensi
Alice Fraccari, soprano
Giacomo Pieracci, bass
Michele Gaddi, organ and conductor
Prospettive di ricerca per la musica antica / Research Perspectives on Early Music

21/03/2024 14:30 CET

Prospettive di ricerca per la musica antica / Research Perspectives on Early Music Online and On-site

Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali, Università di Pavia, Campus di Cremona Italy
Palazzo Raimondi, Cremona, Corso Garibaldi, 178 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/jmBRqYnXeEifRCkQ6), 26100 Cremona
Presentation of the research projects on Early Music developed in the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage (University of Pavia - Cremona Campus), from the Gregorian Chant and Renaissance Music to the Baroque Music.
Musicians
Giovanni Varelli (associate Professor), Antonio Calvia (assistant professor), Michele Epifani (assistant professor), Luca Gatti (research fellow), Antonio Delfino (associate professor), Rodobaldo Tibaldi (associate professor), Francesco Saggio (research fellow), Angela Romagnoli (associate professor), Luca Benedetti (musicologist), Donatella Melini (research fellow), Massimiliano Guido (associate professor)
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