Edition 2023

Students and teachers from the Conservatori Professional de Música de Menorca are preparing a very special concert for the Early Music Day, in  the island of Menorca (Spain).

Orquestra de cordes dels Ensenyaments Professionals
Martín Lopesino, solo oboe
Oliver Vinent, conductor

Chamber music groups

Dafne, by Antonio Caldara

Les Epopées complete the complete Grands Motets by Jean-Baptiste Lully in Versailles with the Te Deum and the Exaudiat. Under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, 60 singers and instrumentalists from Les Epopées are joined by the Pages and Chantres of the CMBV for this concert. 

Les Epopées / Stéphane Fuget, direction

The origin of this participatory concert is the Livre Vermeil of the Montserrat monastery, a collection of popular songs, rhythms and dances for the arrival of pilgrims. They are performed here in "a bouquet as sumptuous as it is unexpected".

Concert with plainchant from medieval Sweden.

3 free events for this day:
- 2 school sessions during the day, morning and afternoon, with registration.
- 1 educational concert for the general public at 6 pm 
This programme honours the recorder, one of the emblematic instruments of the Baroque period, and offers a short didactic tour of entertainment music in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Triosonates by Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi, Sammartini, Frescobaldi, Sammartini, Uccelini or Merula performed by soloists Jean-Marc Andrieu and Stéphanie Cettolo will make you discover the expressiveness and virtuosity of the recorder. 

Stéphanie Cettolo, flute

Jean-Marc Andrieu, flute

Sophie Castellat, cello
Anne-Lise Labusquière, harpsichord 

Concert: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, Orlando di Lasso. 

Tinne Albrectsen, violin, Adam Graumann, gambe, Søren Gleerup Hansen, orgel.

An Early Music Concert-tribute in Vigevano, a beautiful town next to Milan, both geographically and historically: during the Renaissance, the Court of Sforza was moved from Milan to Vigevano and prominent personalities such Ludovido il Moro, Leonardo da Vinci, Donato Bramante stood here. The Concert venue is the amazing "Auditorium San Dionigi" - baroque church suspended for worship and currently the "temple" of music in Vigevano - located a few meters away from the wonderful Piazza Ducale.

Concert: Music by Bach, Purcell, Lotti, Scarlatti, Kuhnau, Monteverdi, Carissimi, and Charpentier.

Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore, director
Andrew Skidmore, cello

Presentation of the Festival programme, the CD/DVD Guillaume de Machaut volume 1, on the occasion of its national release by Bayard Musique, with a video projection of the animated illuminations made from the BNF manuscripts.

Emmanuel Bonnardot vocals, fiddle, rebec, citole, crwth and artistic direction
Camille Bonnardot vocals, vihuela, cornet
François Demerliac video maker
Florence Jacquemart vocals, flutes, bagpipes
Hélène Moreau vocals, psaltery, percussion
Pierre Tessier vocals, narrator

The Telling soprano Clare Norburn presents a workshop live on Zoom to guide you through how to sing some medieval songs by and about women. All ages and abilities welcome and you do not need to be able to read music. All participants will be on mute so you can sing without fear.

Clare Norburn, soprano

In this episode of our early music podcast, we explore the connection of eras in the context of diversity. We will talk to traverso player Liane Sadler, who explores the legacy of the first published female composer, Magdalena Casulana, and with a composer of our time, Francesca Gaza, a young, talented and successful artist who made her debut with the improvisational album "Kugelförmigkeit" dedicated to jazz and early music.

Darina Ablogina traverso/speaker
Liane Sadler taverso/speaker
Francesca Gaza singer/speaker
Dakota Wayne speaker

A precious testimony to the all too rare pages written by female composers (Bembo and Jacquet de la Guerre) in France during the reign of Louis XIV. With Marie Perbost, Claire Lefilliâtre and Les Epopées under the direction of Stéphane Fuget. 

Les Epopées
Marie Perbost soprano
Claire Lefilliâtre soprano
Stéphane Fuget direction 

The MADriGALS&GUYS is a community singing group made up of amateurs and professionals, musicians and non-musicians, formed to promote the singing of madrigals, chorales, roundelays and carols for joy and wellbeing.

The more than 100 female figures that George Frideric Handel depicts in his works are often self-confident, courageous and strong women. This concert examines them, and builds a musical bridge between Handel’s music and the world of jazz.

Anette von Eichel - Vocals
Marko Lackner - Saxophone
Sebastian Sternal - Piano
Henning Sieverts - Bass
Jonas Burgwinkel - Drums

A concert performance of “Arianna a la recherche” by Rinuccini/Monteverdi/Lawrence-King. 

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and soloists; Lodewijk van der Ree, choirmaster; Floridante baroque orchestra; Andrew Lawrence-King, artistic director and conductor 

A video selection of my concert at the above-mentioned venue last 25th September 2022.

Joaquim Bogunyà, vihuelist

Organ recital with music by Bach & Böhm. The programme contrasts the music of one of Bach’s earliest influences with two of his mature organ works.

Andrew Benson-Wilson organ

With the programme Méditerranée Sacrée, The Elements invites us to escape to the shores of the Mediterranean, the source of so many stories and faith. These compositions from the Renaissance, the Baroque and today, in which songs in Aramaic, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and ancient Greek are interwoven, are an invitation to meditation.