Edition 2023

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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Le corti padane del Seicento

21/03/2023 20:45 CET (21/03/2023 20:45 CET)

Le corti padane del Seicento On-site

Associazione Amici della Scuola Diocesana di Musica Santa Cecilia Italy
chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine - Brescia, Contrada del Carmine 5, Brescia
The Antegnati-Meiarini organ of Brescia S. Maria del Carmine is a typical example of the Renaissance organ traditions transcending into the first half of the 17th century.  
The concert will enhance the peculiar characteristics of the instrument, proposing seventeenth-century music in duo with the baroque violin.
Musicians
Duo Seraphim: Gian Andrea Guerra (violin) - Stefano Molardi (organ).
Concerto organo Margherita Dalla Vecchia

19/03/2023 17:00 CET

Concerto organo Margherita Dalla Vecchia On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Chiesa San Michele ai Servi, Piazza Biade Vicenza, Vicenza
BWV 548 e BWV 686
Musicians
Margherita Dalla Vecchia 
Accade anche qui

21/03/2023 16:00 UTC (21/03/2023 17:00 CET)

Accade anche qui On-site

Diapason Consortium Italy
Auditorium San Dionigi , Piazza Martiri della Liberazione, 12, Vigevano
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.
Musicians
Bottega dei Suoni 
Giornata della Musica Antica - Palazzo Mezzopreti

20/03/2023 10:00 CET (20/03/2023 10:00 CET)

Giornata della Musica Antica - Palazzo Mezzopreti On-site

Conservatorio di Musica "Luiza d'Annunzio" di Pescara Italy
Palazzo Mezzopreti - Gomez, Conservatorio di Musica "Luiza d'Annunzio", Viale Muzii, 5 - 65100 PESCARA, PESCARA (ABRUZZO)
Seminario, concerti, esposizione

Monday 20 March 2023: Seminar.
10 a.m.-12.30 p.m. and 1.30-3.30 p.m.
"J. S. Bach: Clavier-Werke 2023: Le Suites Anglois BWV 806-811".
Organised by Massimo Salcito (teacher of the Conservatory's Harpsichord and Historical Keyboard courses)

Tuesday 21 March 2023: Concerts.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
"J. S. Bach: Clavier-Werke 2023: Le Suites Anglois BWV 806-811".
Massimo Salcito, Harpsichord

6.00 p.m.
"Beauty and Wonder: The Triumph of the German Baroque in the 18th Century".
Pierluigi Mencattini, Baroque Violin
Roberto Torto, Recorder
Stefania Di Giuseppe, Harpsichord

Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 March: Exhibition tour
"J. S. Bach, Clavier-Werke: Bach in Italy".
Explanatory panels - Books - Records
Musicians
Massimo Salcito, Harpsichord, speaker, exhibition leader

Pierluigi Mencattini, Baroque Violin
Roberto Torto, Recorder
Stefania Di Giuseppe, Harpsichord
Fiori Barocchi, l’era di J. S. Bach

26/03/2023 17:00 CEST

Fiori Barocchi, l’era di J. S. Bach On-site

Accademia “Pietro Bertani” Italy
Auditorium di Maccagno, Via Pietro Valsecchi 23, Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca (VA)
Showcase of the best students of musical conservatoires and academies of high Lombardy performing the best pieces of the baroque era. (Conservatorio “G. Puccini”, Conservatorio “G. Cantelli”, Liceo Musicale “R. Malipiero”, Accademia “P. Bertani”, Scuola “N. Paganini”)
Musicians
Barbara Berlusconi, docente
Silvia Gatti, docente
Laura Gianantonio, docente
Gabriele Salemi, docente
Hungarian chorals

21/03/2023 20:15 CET (21/03/2023 20:15 CET)

Hungarian chorals On-site

Amici della Musica di Padova Italy
Auditorium Cesare Pollini, Via Carlo Cassan, 17, Padova
J.S. Bach: Drei Choralvorspiele (transcription for cello and piano by Zoltan Kodàly)
                   - Ach, was ist doch unser Leben BWV 743
                   - Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 762
                   - Christus, der uns selig macht BWV 747
R. Strauss: Sonata op. 6
E. Grieg: Sonata op. 36

The Three Preludes-Chorals for organ by J.S.Bach transcribed in 1924 by Kodály for cello and piano, a work very rarely heard, is dedicated "to Prof. Karl Straube", the eminent German organist (1873-1950) who dedicated his life as a scholar, teacher and musician to the great Bach tradition in Leipzig, where he was organist and then Kantor in the famous Thomaskirche.

photo ©Marco Borggreve
Musicians
Maximilan Hornung cello
Herbert Schuch piano
A la Noche

21/03/2023 20:30 CET

A la Noche On-site

PAOLA ERDAS - festival WUNDERKAMMER Trieste Italy
Teatro Miela, Piazza Luigi Amedeo Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, 34132 Trieste - Italie, Trieste
Behold and listen

26/03/2023 18:00 CEST (26/03/2023 18:00 CEST)

Behold and listen On-site

Associazione Antica Massa Cybea in collaborazione con Dickens Fellowship - filiale italiana Italy
Sede Dickens Fellowship, Piazza Alberica 2A, 54033 Carrara (MS)
Arie e Cantate tra Seicento e Settecento
Musicians
Ensemble Massa Cybea: Eleonora Di Dato (soprano); Claudia Poz (violoncello); Erminia Migliorini (clavicembalo)
Bach to the Future - Cello Suites

21/03/2023 22:00 CET

Bach to the Future - Cello Suites Online

Institute Français Italy
Santa Maria del Carmine , Piazza del Carmine , Roma
Performance of the Bach Suites for Violoncello 1/2/3/4 
BWV 1007-1008-1009-1010
Musicians
Giordano Antonelli, Violoncello 
A violino solo, senza basso

19/03/2023 12:00 CET

A violino solo, senza basso On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Contra Santa Corona, Vicenza
Classes di violino del M' Enrico Balboni del Conservatorio di Vicenza
Musicians
Andrea Bett, Paola Volpi
Buon Compleanno Bach

21/03/2023 12:00 CET

Buon Compleanno Bach On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Palazzo Chiericati, Piazza Matteotti 37, Vicenza
"Cantabile, dolce, vivace...per il flauto traverso in concerto con il clavicembalo "
Musicians
Studenti della classe di flauto del M' Antonio Vivian del Conservatorio di Vicenza 
Buon Compleanno Bach

21/03/2023 15:00 CET

Buon Compleanno Bach On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Museo Diocesano di Vicenza, Piazza del Duomo 12, Vicenza
"Lo stile concertante, l'affetto in dialettica: II e III tempo dal V concerto brandeburghese BWV 1050 di J.S. Bach
Musicians
Studenti e docenti della classe di musica da camera del liceo musicale "A. Pigafetta" di Vicenza 
Così parlò Monteverdi

16/03/2023 18:00 CET

Così parlò Monteverdi On-site

Musicaimmagine Italy
Villa Lante al Gianicolo, Passeggiata del Gianicolo, 10 , Roma
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Gian Francesco Malipiero [Venice 1882-Treviso 1973], composer and scholar, «innovator» and «exhumer», a complex and controversial figure, a perfect 'Navigante del Tempo' according our modern sensibility. Among the numerous initiatives undertaken, the Venetian-Asolan composer curates the Complete Works of Claudio Monteverdi [1567-1643], published in 16 volumes at the Vittoriale degli Italiani, d'Annunzio's autarkic citadel on Lake Garda – then reprinted by Universal Edition (Vienna, 1967) including a Volume XVII 'Appendix'.
The event presents the figure and work of Malipiero, also through the screening of Georg Brintrup's film Poemi asolani (WDR, 1985), and a concert by the Ensemble Seicentonovecento conducted by Flavio Colusso, with madrigals by Monteverdi.

Musicians
Ensemble Seicentonovecento conducted by Flavio Colusso
Buon Compleanno Bach

21/03/2023 17:00 CET

Buon Compleanno Bach On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Loggia del Capitaniato Vicenza, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza
"Ti piace Bach? Dal clavicembalo ben temperato alla break dance"
Musicians
Studenti delle classi di pianoforte e percussioni del liceo musicale  A. Pigafetta di Vicenza,  Break Dance con i BBoys di Verona "Povia-Arena"
Arnalta Cafè

16/03/2023 21:00 CET

Arnalta Cafè On-site

Fondazione Teatro Fraschini - Centro di Musica Antica Ghislieri Italy
Cinema Teatro Politeama, Corso Camillo Benso Cavour, 20, Pavia
Arnalta Café is a 'stand-up comedy' featuring nurses from different 17th century operas, all intent on having their say. Lullabies, lullabies, arias of toilet, arias of complaint, irreverent mockery. Some of the best-loved Baroque composers of all time, such as Monteverdi and Cavalli, are juxtaposed with lesser-known authors with operatic scenes in their first modern performance, which come to light again after more than three hundred years. A series of amusing sketches, but at the same time of great musical merit, centred on what was one of the most̀ beloved recurring characters of seventeenth-century audiences: la nutrice en travesti.
It is a crowded stage: Desba, Dirce, Nerea, Nisbe, Pasquella, Plancina, Rodisbe, Delfa, Filandra, Lenia, Gilde... and of course Arnalta! These elderly girls are quivering with desire to return to the spotlight.
Musicians
Luca Cervoni, voice

Concerto Romano

Alessandro Quarta, harpsichord

Buon Compleanno Bach

21/03/2023 11:00 CET

Buon Compleanno Bach On-site

Associazione Mousike Vicenza Italy
Chiesa San Michele ai Servi, Piazza Biade Vicenza, Vicenza
Studenti della classe di organo del M' Matteo Venturini, Conservatorio "A. PEDROLLO" di Vicenza 
Magnum et admirabile - an audio-visual document and dialogue on the project  "Spatial Music. Polychoral music as an instrument of sound seduction"

21/03/2023 18:00 CET (21/03/2023 18:00 CET)

Magnum et admirabile - an audio-visual document and dialogue on the project "Spatial Music. Polychoral music as an instrument of sound seduction" On-site

L'Homme Armé Italy
Auditorium di Sant'Apollonia - Sala Poccetti, Via San Gallo 25, Firenze
A documentation and reflection meeting on the project "Spatial Music", promoted by  L'Homme Armé between November and December 2022 with the support of Autunno Fiorentino. A broad and articulated project aimed at cultural inclusion starting from early music, with a contemporary and interdisciplinary view.
Musicians
Speakers: 
  • Giulia Nuti
  • Renato Baldassini
  • Ida Maria Tosto
  • Fabio Lombardo
  • Bettina Hoffmann
  • Gustav Baldassini
EQUINOTIUM

20/03/2023 19:00 CET

EQUINOTIUM On-site

N&B MARETERRA FESTIVAL Italy
Chiesa del Sacro Cuore, via Fiume, 15, Monopoli (Bari)
ORGAN CONCERT
Celebration on the Spring Equinox
Works by J.S. Bach (on his birthday's eve)
Musicians
Gilberto Scordari, organ
Concerti grossi a garganella

18/03/2023 16:00 CET (18/03/2023 16:00 CET)

Concerti grossi a garganella On-site

Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Italy
Incontri con l'Orchestra Barocca, Sala della Balla del Castello Sforzesco , Milan
Concerto dell'Orchestra barocca della Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado presso la Sala della Balla del Castello Sforzesco
Musicians
Martín Moya Fernandez, Neyén Finot Copa, Stefano Trotta, Giorgia Gianna, Francesco Spiri, Lucrezia Dessì, Flavia Ubaldi, violins
Maria Antonietta Losito, Matteo Giannone, viols
Massimo Campagna, Chiara Cardelli, cellos
Fabio Longo, doublebass
Sebastiano Cristaldi, harpsichord
Emanuele Gorla, theorbo
Carlo De Martini, conductor
Isole di suono - Corelli, Forqueray & Marais

17/03/2023 21:00 CET (17/03/2023 21:00 CET)

Isole di suono - Corelli, Forqueray & Marais On-site

Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Italy
Isole di suono - Corelli, Forqueray & Marais, Corso di Porta Vigentina 15/a, Milan
 Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) 
 Sonata VI in sol maggiore, da Sonatas for viol and basso continuo, Peer, 1989 / MS. VM 7 6308, Parigi. 
Adagio - Allegro - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro 
 
Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745) 
Suite II in sol maggiore, da Pièces de viole avec la basse continue, Paris, 1747. 
La Dubreüil - La Leclair - Chaconne La Buisson 
 
Marin Marais (1656-1728) 
Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully, da Pièces de viole, Deuxième Livre, Parigi, 1701
Suite in re minore, da Pièces de viole, Deuxième Livre, Parigi, 1701. 
Prelude - Bourasque - Fantaisie - La folette - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - Gigue la favorite - Caprice - Ballet en rondeau 
Musicians
Anaïs Lauwaert, gamba 
Ninon Dusollier, baroque bassoon
Margherita Burattini, double harp 
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