Edition 2024
21/03/2024 14:00 CET
Guided tour of Olivier Calmeille's violin and bow making workshop On-site
Atelier Scordatura France6 Rue Boussairolles, 34000 Montpellier
The Atelier Scordatura was born out of a meeting between two luthiers: Frédéric Becker, a luthier and bow maker specialising in classical instruments, who worked at the Hôtel Faulquier for almost forty years, and Olivier Calmeille, now the owner, a Montpellier luthier for fifteen years specialising in historic instruments and period fittings.
The Atelier Scordatura invites you to take a trip back in time and discover the wealth of classical and historical violin making, from restoration to the manufacture of bowed stringed instruments (from violins to double basses and violas da gamba).
Admission free, with registration by email at atelier@scordatura.fr
21/03/2024 21:00 CET
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), “Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo” On-site
ACCADEMIA DEL RICERCARE ItalyPiazza Sant'Eusebio, 10, 13100 Vercelli
Chiara Pontoriero, Marta
Sara Lacitignola, Amor Celeste
Rossella Giacchero, Amor Terreno
Stefano Gambarino, Christ
Mario Tahtouh, Pharisee
Yayoi Masuda, Efix Puleo, Francesco Bergamini, Artem Dzeganovskyi, violins
Elena Saccomandi, Alessandro Curtoni, violas
Daniele Bovo, cello
Gualtiero Marangoni, violone
Laura La Vecchia, theorbo
Claudia Ferrero, harpsichord
Luigi Pagliarini, conductor
21/03/2024 19:30 CET (21/03/2024 19:30 CET)
300 years of Spanish harpsichord music Online and On-site
Música Antigua Xixón SpainMuseo Casa Natal de Jovellanos, Jovellanos square, s/n, , 33201 Gijón/Xixón
22/03/2024 13:00 CET
Open rehearsals as part of the Sacred Music Festival - Ensemble Caravansérail On-site
Festival de musique sacrée de Perpignan France6 Rue François Rabelais, 66000 Perpignan
Italian baroque music
Cast :
Ensemble Caravansérail
Bertrand Cuiller, conductor
Cécile Achille, Hasnaa Bennani, Rachel Redmond, Anaïs Bertrand, sopranos
Paul Figuier, Leandro Marziotte, altos
Olivier Coiffet, Tarik Bousselma, tenors
Étienne Bazola, Nicolas Certenais, basses
Bérengère Sardin, harp
Bruno Cocset, cello
Benoît Vanden Bemden, double bass
Jean-Luc Ho, organ
Programme:
Following its unprecedented public success in 2023, the Perpignan Festival of Sacred Music is continuing its journey with all the energy that drives it, to roll out, from 15 to 28 March in 2024, a programme illuminated by artistic beauty and the quintessence of the unspeakable.
As part of their concert on Friday 22 March, the orchestra's musicians will be previewing their work at free open rehearsals. A chance to go behind the scenes of the festival!
For its first appearance at the festival, the Caravansérail ensemble, led by its conductor Bertrand Cuiller, one of the most gifted harpsichordists of his generation, will present a programme dedicated to the virtuoso composer Domenico Scarlatti. Famous for having composed a magnificent corpus of 555 sonatas for harpsichord, he also bequeathed to posterity 21 sacred pieces. His Stabat mater, thought to have been composed for the Vatican's Capella Giulia, is certainly the most original and accomplished of his sacred vocal works. In creating this free and innovative piece, he freed himself from the principle of writing for a double choir, playing instead with the richness of a vocal fabric of ten real voices. More classical in tone but no less exciting and lively, the Te Deum is in the Italian tradition of the double choir, while the Missa Quatuor Vocum (known as the 'Madrid Mass') is marked by elegance and sobriety.
Admission subject to availability, with registration at lucie.zourray@lesmusesendialogue.com
The ensemble performs in France at the Théâtre de Caen, the Midsummer Festival in Hardelot, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Abbey of Royaumont, the Château de Versailles, the Festival de Pontoise, the Théâtre de Cornouaille, the Théâtre de Besançon and the Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne; and in Europe at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, the La Folia festival in Rougemont and Bozar - Brussels in particular.
In 2018, Caravansérail was chosen by co[opéra]tive for a major tour of Georg Friedrich Haendel's Rinaldo, directed by Claire Dancoisne.
In 2016, Bertrand Cuiller and Caravansérail recorded A Fancy, Fantasy On English Airs & Tunes for Harmonia mundi. The album was hailed by the critics and received 4F from Télérama and 4 stars from Classica.
The second album, Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater and Other Works, was released in 2022.
Keen to pass on a rich cultural heritage to younger generations, Le Caravansérail has been running an immersive artistic and cultural education project since 2019 in partnership with the City of Montereau and the Drac Île-de-France.
Le Caravansérail is supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre national de la musique and SPEDIDAM.
23/03/2024 14:00 CET
Guided tour of the harpsichord workshop On-site
Atelier « Clavecins Martine Argellies » France11bis Rue des Soldats, 34000 Montpellier
Programme:
Martine Argellies has been making harpsichords since 1981. Her workshop, based in Montpellier, is one of the last remaining specialist harpsichord makers in France.
Her interest in the Baroque musical repertoire, of which the pedalless, plucked-string harpsichord is one of the emblems, and her attraction to craftsmanship have guided her professional choices. When she left her teens, she joined a friend who owned a piano shop. She then studied with a cabinetmaker, before spending a decade training on her own. With the two people around her now, she makes a dozen instruments a year, a quarter of which are exported.
Go to the website of the "Clavecins Martine Argellies" workshop
Free admission, registration by email argellies@free.fr - Tramway: line 3 stop Saint-Denis, line 4 stop Saint-Guilhem
22/03/2024 11:00 CET
Musical tours of the Musée Fabre collections (Montpellier) - Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard On-site
Les Muses en dialogue France39 Bd Bonne Nouvelle, 34000 Montpellier
Cast :
Armance Merle, recorders and baroque traverso
Juliette Guichard, viola da gamba
Programme :
As part of the European Early Music Days, the Musée Fabre is opening its doors to Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard. On a guided musical and pictorial tour, music and paintings reveal their secrets.
The flute and viola da gamba will resonate in this majestic setting during an original guided tour, revealing each work through the prism of emotions.
A musical tour of the Musée Fabre's permanent collections lasting around 1 hour.
Armance Merle studied the recorder and traverso at the Meaux Conservatoire, alongside a degree in theatre. She went on to study the recorder at the CNSMD Lyon with Pierre Hamon, Sébastien Marq and Tiago Simas Freire, and the traverso at the CRR Lyon in 2020 with Serge Saïtta and Jean Brégnac. She then explored the possible horizons of these instruments. As part of the Synérèse collective, she created the multidisciplinary show Somnescence, linking music and dance, and joined the Transatlantique ensemble to explore early Latin American repertoire, as well as the ensembles Les Étourdi-es and La Nébuleuse to explore French baroque music. In 2023, she also recorded Télémaque and Calypso with the ensemble Les Ombres. She then joined the Consort de Passage to perform Renaissance and contemporary repertoire, and Ecco la Primavera, which brings medieval music to life through a chivalric tale. In 2022, her desire to explore new avenues also led her to begin work on the show Plantons-nous as part of the Les Grimpantes collective, which continues to develop this desire for multidisciplinarity.
22/03/2024 21:00 CET
Concert as part of the Sacred Music Festival - Ensemble Caravansérail On-site
Festival de musique sacrée de Perpignan France6 Rue François Rabelais, 66000 Perpignan
Italian baroque music
Cast :
Ensemble Caravansérail
Bertrand Cuiller, conductor
Cécile Achille, Hasnaa Bennani, Rachel Redmond, Anaïs Bertrand, sopranos
Paul Figuier, Leandro Marziotte, altos
Olivier Coiffet, Tarik Bousselma, tenors
Étienne Bazola, Nicolas Certenais, basses
Bérengère Sardin, harp
Bruno Cocset, cello
Benoît Vanden Bemden, double bass
Jean-Luc Ho, organ
Programme:
Following its unprecedented public success in 2023, the Perpignan Festival of Sacred Music is continuing its journey with all the energy that drives it, to roll out, from 15 to 28 March in 2024, a programme illuminated by artistic beauty and the quintessence of the unspeakable.
As part of their concert on Friday 22 March, the orchestra's musicians will be previewing their work at free open rehearsals. A chance to go behind the scenes of the festival!
For its first appearance at the festival, the Caravansérail ensemble, led by its conductor Bertrand Cuiller, one of the most gifted harpsichordists of his generation, will present a programme dedicated to the virtuoso composer Domenico Scarlatti. Famous for having composed a magnificent corpus of 555 sonatas for harpsichord, he also bequeathed to posterity 21 sacred pieces. His Stabat mater, thought to have been composed for the Vatican's Capella Giulia, is certainly the most original and accomplished of his sacred vocal works. In creating this pieceFor its first appearance at the festival, the Caravansérail ensemble, led by its conductor Bertrand Cuiller, one of the most gifted harpsichordists of his generation, will present a programme dedicated to the virtuoso composer Domenico Scarlatti. Famous for having composed a magnificent corpus of 555 sonatas for harpsichord, he also bequeathed to posterity 21 sacred pieces. His Stabat mater, thought to have been composed for the Vatican's Capella Giulia, is certainly the most original and accomplished of his sacred vocal works. In creating this free and innovative piece, he freed himself from the principle of writing for a double choir, playing instead with the richness of a vocal fabric of ten real voices. More classical in tone but no less exciting and lively, the Te Deum is in the Italian tradition of the double choir, while the Missa Quatuor Vocum (known as the 'Madrid Mass') is marked by elegance and sobriety.
The ensemble performs in France at the Théâtre de Caen, the Midsummer Festival in Hardelot, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Abbey of Royaumont, the Château de Versailles, the Festival de Pontoise, the Théâtre de Cornouaille, the Théâtre de Besançon and the Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne; and in Europe at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, the La Folia festival in Rougemont and Bozar - Brussels in particular.
In 2018, Caravansérail was chosen by co[opéra]tive for a major tour of Georg Friedrich Haendel's Rinaldo, directed by Claire Dancoisne.
In 2016, Bertrand Cuiller and Caravansérail recorded A Fancy, Fantasy On English Airs & Tunes for Harmonia mundi. The album was hailed by the critics and received 4F from Télérama and 4 stars from Classica.
The second album, Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater and Other Works, was released in 2022.
Keen to pass on a rich cultural heritage to younger generations, Le Caravansérail has been running an immersive artistic and cultural education project since 2019 in partnership with the City of Montereau and the Drac Île-de-France.
Le Caravansérail is supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre national de la musique and SPEDIDAM.
23/03/2024 15:00 CET
Family workshops with Anaïs Ramage On-site
Les Muses en dialogue France218 Bd de l'Aéroport international, 34000 Montpellier
Programme :
Passionate about early repertoire, Anaïs Ramage brilliantly obtained her recorder and early bassoon diplomas at the Schola Cantorum in Basel and the CNSM in Lyon. She is regularly contacted by prestigious ensembles such as Les Arts florissants, Le Concert Spirituel, Les Surprises, Vox Luminis, Café Zimmermann and many others, and has recorded numerous CDs while teaching at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Montpellier.
The workshop will provide an opportunity to discover the world of ancient flutes and bassoons, wind instruments in particular, but also the woodwinds and sizes of the instruments and their various specificities. The workshop will end with a short test for the youngest children.
The workshop is free, but you need to register by phone on 04.99.06.27.49 or at the music bank.
21/03/2024 21:00 CET (21/03/2024 21:00 CET)
Misteria Paschalia - Prelude | Early Music Day 2024 On-site
KBF Krakow Festival Office PolandChurch of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ul. Kopernika 19, 31-529 Krakow
21/03/2024 21:04 CET
La primavera di Bach On-site
Associazione Mousike Vicenza ItalyCentro Storico di Vicenza , Contra San Rocco 26, 36100 Vicenza
In memoriam of Michael Radulescu, with Teatro Armonico and many artists.
16/03/2024 20:00 CET
Bach³ On-site
AMUZ & Les Muffatti BelgiumKammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen
Overture (Suite) no. 2 in B Minor for traverso, strings & basso continuo, BWV 1067
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major for harpsichord, traverso, violin, strings & basso continuo, BWV 1050
Triple Concerto in A Minor for traverso, violin, harpsichord, strings & basso continuo, BWV 1044
Sophie Gent, violin
Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord
Les Muffatti
17/03/2024 17:00 CET
Bach³ On-site
RMVA & Les Muffatti LuxembourgÉglise Saint-Pierre, 1 Pl. de l'Église , 7316 Steinsel
The orchestral textures are diversified, with a more soloistic style in the Brandenburg Concerto and a fuller tutti in the Triple Concerto and the Suite. In the Suite, with the exception of the solo movements, we consider the flute to be a sensitive colour in the orchestral texture rather than a solo instrument to be emphasised at all costs.
These fuller tutti run counter to the recent fashion for "one per voice" performances, but we are convinced that this option is just as legitimate, and thirty years after the last symphonic versions, which probably suffered from a certain heaviness, with all the lessons of historically informed interpretation, we are convinced that we can take the audience on a journey through a renewed vision of these Bach monuments.
PROGRAMME
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Overture (Suite) No. 2 BWV 1067 for flute, strings & continuo
- Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5 BWV 1050 for harpsichord, flute, violin, strings & continuo
- Triple Concerto BWV 1044 for flute, violin, harpsichord, strings & continuo
Sophie Gent, violin
Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord
The Muffattis
21/03/2024 15:00 CET
Meet Diabolus in Musica On-site
Ensemble Diabolus in Musica France11 rue des Tanneurs, 37000 Tours
Discussions on artistic projects, presentation of medieval instruments...
Thursday 21 March 2024, 3pm to 5pm
Free, booking recommended
Frédérique Alglave, Administrator
Audrey Legendre, Production and Distribution Manager
21/03/2024 16:00 CET (21/03/2024 16:00 CET)
I Colori del Barocco On-site
Be Ancient Be Cool ItalySalone Odeo, Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Matteotti 11, 36100 Vicenza
Giuseppe Falciglia, baroque oboe, oboe d'amore and recorder
Silvia Dell'Agnolo, chalumeau
Dario Pisasale, theorbo
21/03/2024 18:00 CET (21/03/2024 18:00 CET)
Hymn of the Cherubim - Orthodox Church Music Concert On-site
Zespół Śpiewaków Miasta Katowice „Camerata Silesia” PolandCity house of culture „Szopienice-Giszowiec”, City house of culture „Szopienice-Giszowiec”, 1 Pod Lipami Square, 40-476 Katowice
Concert performed by the Ensemble of Singers of the City of Katowice "Camerata Silesia" and Ukrainian composer and pianist Ivan Taranenko.
Anna Szostak - conductor
Ivan Taranenko - pianist
21/03/2024 16:30 GMT (21/03/2024 17:30 CET)
Telemann e Monteverdi Online and On-site
Conservatorio Alfredo Casella ItalyL'Aquila, De Martini, Via Dei Dauni, 2, 00185 Roma
Alfredo Casella' Conservatory of Music - L'Aquila
Ensemble music workshop for ancient instruments by Prof. Maria de Martini
Mandolin Ensemble by Prof. Fabio Giudice
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata in C Major TWV 41:C2
Cantabile, Allegro, Grave, Vivace
Triosonata in A minor TWV 42:a4
Largo, Vivace, Affettuoso, Allegro
Concerto in D Major TWV 40:202
Adagio, Allegro, Grave, Allegro (transcription for four mandolins)
Quartet in D minor TWV 43:D3
Andante, Vivace, Largo, Allegro
PART II
Project 1624-2024: 4 CENTURIES OF COMBAT.
Claudio Monteverdi and the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda on the 4th centenary of the first performance
Coordination Prof. Massimo Salcito
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Aria for several voices "Sì dolce 'l tormento" by Claudio Monteverdi, SV 332
"Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" by Claudio Monteverdi, SV 153
Canzonetta for several voices "Fugge 'l verno dei dolori" 232
Ensemble 'Alceo Toni':
- Azzurra Di Marco
- Arianna Giuliani
- Vincenzo Ciccarelli
- Wei Keke
- Massimo Salcito, Harpsichord
- Nina Taddei, Recorder
- Maria de Martini, Recorder
- Sayaka di Matteo, Baroque Violin
- Antonio Lattanzi, Transverse Flute
- Giordano D'Alfonso, Harpsichord
- Alberto Lattanzi, Viola da Gamba
- Felice Zaccheo, Viola da Gamba
- Fabio Giudice, Mandolin
- Stefano Pogelli, Mandolin
- Fabio Refrigeri, Mandolin
-Marco Battistelli, Mandolin
21/03/2024 19:30 MSK (21/03/2024 17:30 CET)
Telemania Online and On-site
Gemeinde St.Catherine Lutheran church St.Petersburg Russian FederationSt.Catherine church St.Petersburg, Большой проспект Васильевского острова, 1/20, Санкт-Петербург, Россия, 199053, 199053 St.Petersburg
21/03/2024 20:00 CET
Concert – Ars Vocalis (Pôle d’art vocal de l’Ensemble Arianna) et étudiants du Département Voix et Musiques anciennes de la Cité des Arts de Montpellier On-site
Association Ars Musica-Montpellier France43 Rue de l'Aiguillerie, 34000 Montpellier
Distribution :
Ars Vocalis (Ensemble Arianna's vocal arts centre)
Marie-Paule Nounou, conductor
Voice and Early Music Department of the Cité des Arts de Montpellier
Jean-Philippe Zielinski, conductor
Programme :
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Excerpts from the Mass for 4 voices
Marco Antonio Ingegneri (1535-1592)
Responses for Holy Week
Andrea Gabrieli (1533-1585)
Sancta et immaculata Virginitas
Mateo Flecha 'El Viejo' (1481-1553)
El Fuego - Excerpt from Ensaladas
Born in 2008 as a partner in concerts with Ensemble Arianna, he has performed in Languedoc-Roussillon in such works as Purcell's Anthems, excerpts from Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Credo and Magnificat, Carissimi's Histoire de Jephté, Allegri's Miserere, Schütz's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross, and grand motets by Mondonville and Corrette. With the help of organist Frédéric Muñoz, he has restored Latin American pieces from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
In masterclasses, he brings in prestigious singers and conductors to deepen his stylistic and vocal knowledge. In December 2015, tenor Gilles Ragon conducted a programme entitled Vivaldi, Albinoni, Caldara, Princes of Venice, and 2017 was dedicated to Monteverdi, under the passionate guidance of Gabriel Garrido, a great specialist in this composer. In 2023, countertenor Sebastian Monti led a programme of French music dedicated to Campra, Bernier and Clérambault.
In 2007, the Cité des Arts - Danse, Musique, Théâtre was classified as a Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) within the national network of public music, dance and drama teaching establishments by the Ministry of Culture.
As a result, its missions are as follows:
- to offer excellent teaching accessible to all, throughout the country, in conjunction with local schools, the national education system and broadcasting organisations;
- to help build children's personalities, development and self-fulfilment;
- to act as a resource centre for local schools and outside audiences in terms of amateur practice, while identifying and training tomorrow's professional artists, taking them to the gates of higher education and the profession of artist;
- offering excellent training to students on the road to professionalism through master classes and internships (training to become soloists and orchestral musicians), and extending the reach of these courses, which could form the basis of higher education in partnership with the university;
- educate children and young people for the performing arts by preparing them for live performances and encouraging them to experience the thrill of live performance.
22/03/2024 15:30 CET
Musical tours of the Musée Fabre collections (Montpellier) - Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard On-site
Les Muses en dialogue France39 Bd Bonne Nouvelle, 34000 Montpellier
Cast :
Armance Merle, recorders and baroque traverso
Juliette Guichard, viola da gamba
Programme :
As part of the European Early Music Days, the Musée Fabre is opening its doors to Armance Merle and Juliette Guichard. On a guided musical and pictorial tour, music and paintings reveal their secrets.
The flute and viola da gamba will resonate in this majestic setting during an original guided tour, revealing each work through the prism of emotions.
A musical tour of the Musée Fabre's permanent collections lasting around 1 hour.
Armance Merle studied the recorder and traverso at the Meaux Conservatoire, alongside a degree in theatre. She went on to study the recorder at the CNSMD Lyon with Pierre Hamon, Sébastien Marq and Tiago Simas Freire, and the traverso at the CRR Lyon in 2020 with Serge Saïtta and Jean Brégnac. She then explored the possible horizons of these instruments. As part of the Synérèse collective, she created the multidisciplinary show Somnescence, linking music and dance, and joined the Transatlantique ensemble to explore early Latin American repertoire, as well as the ensembles Les Étourdi-es and La Nébuleuse to explore French baroque music. In 2023, she also recorded Télémaque and Calypso with the ensemble Les Ombres. She then joined the Consort de Passage to perform Renaissance and contemporary repertoire, and Ecco la Primavera, which brings medieval music to life through a chivalric tale. In 2022, her desire to explore new avenues also led her to begin work on the show Plantons-nous as part of the Les Grimpantes collective, which continues to develop this desire for multidisciplinarity.
19/03/2024 18:30 GMT (19/03/2024 19:30 CET)
The Mosaic Suite. An homage to Johann Sebastian Bach On-site
Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez SpainStoke Newington Library , Church St, N16 0JS London