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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Fête galante, rencontre avec Diane Omer autour de la danse baroque

18/03/2023 18:00 CET

Fête galante, rencontre avec Diane Omer autour de la danse baroque On-site

Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Pau-Béarn-Pyrénées France
Conservatoire Pau-Béarn-Pyrénées, Rue des Réparatrices, Pau, France, PAU
Bach...e non solo! Progetto artistico a cura della prof.ssa Livia Sandra Frau

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

Bach...e non solo! Progetto artistico a cura della prof.ssa Livia Sandra Frau On-site

Conservatorio Cagliari Italy
Progetto artistico Bach...e non solo!, Piazza Porrino 1, 09128 Cagliari
21-31 marzo Compleanno di J.S.Bach - Approfondire,trascrivere,rielaborare,riproporre
21 Conferenza Bach...cromatico 22 Concerto "Omaggio a bach",24 Conferenza Suggestioni platoniche nella mjusica organistica di J.S.Bach, 29 Concerto "Quadri sonori" 31 Concerto Intorno a Bach

Musicians
Conferenze prof. Riccardo Carnesecchi, prof.ssa Livia Sandra Frau
Allievi in concerto
Oboe Emanuela Muzzu
Flauto Pietro Nonnis Clarinetto Stefano Fadda Fagotto Luigi Muscio
Organo Luca Cogoni, Gian Luca Porru, Valentino Serafini
Coro Polifonico del Conservatorio “G.P.da Palestrina
Direzione di coro Raimondo Belfiori, Alessio Pilloni
Soprano Virginia Zucca
Baritono Dario Sogos
Flauto Selene Gaviano*
Duo di flauti Sarah Mameli - Silvia Sinatra
Sax soprano Esmeralda Tola
Sax contralto Letizia Castronovo
Sax baritono Valentina Spada
Violino Jacopo Serra
Professori in concerto
Fagotto Luigi Muscio
Flauto Sara Ligas
Organo Livia Sandra Frau
Docenti collaboratori
Direzione di Coro e Composizione corale prof. Mauro Bacherini
Oboe prof.ssa Maria Giulia Mazzone
Musica d’insieme prof. Luigi Muscio
Organo prof.ssa Livia Sandra Frau
Canto prof.ssa Elisabetta Scano
Flauto prof.ssa Sara Ligas
Violino prof.Giovanni dalla Vecchia
Ariadnet otsides / In search for Arianna

18/03/2023 19:00 EET (18/03/2023 18:00 CET)

Ariadnet otsides / In search for Arianna On-site

Foundation Eesti Kontsert Estonia
Estonia Concert Hall, Estonia pst 4, 10143 Tallinn
A concert performance of “Arianna a la recherche” by Rinuccini/Monteverdi/Lawrence-King.
The concert will be broadcasted by the Estonian National Radio
Musicians
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and soloists; Lodewijk van der Ree, choirmaster; Floridante baroque orchestra; Andrew Lawrence-King, artistic director and conductor 
*New Single Release* Chacony for strings & continuo – Henry Purcell from 'An Englishman Abroad'

21/03/2023 00:00 GMT (21/03/2023 01:00 CET)

*New Single Release* Chacony for strings & continuo – Henry Purcell from 'An Englishman Abroad' Online

La Serenissima United Kingdom
Hillside, Bourton-on-the-Hill, , Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 9AH
Hear the first single from renowned period ensemble La Serenissima which celebrates the life and work of Nicola Matteis the Younger - An Englishman Abroad. Born in London to an Italian father and English mother, Matteis was immersed in the style of Henry Purcell before leaving England in 1700 for the Imperial Court in Vienna.

All of the music on the album is – rather fortuitously – Carolean; either written for Charles II of England, or for (or in the realm of) Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.

It is all too easy to think that the English style and English musicians were unknown on the continent in the early C18, but this selection of music shows that this wasn’t (always) the case.

There are some cracking dances and dance suites featured here as well as a ravishingly beautiful Vivaldi concerto and two superb Chaconnes, one by an Englishman, and one by an Italian.

The album will be released on 5th May, in time for the Coronation of Charles III. But in the meantime you can enjoy the singles:

  1. Chacony for strings & continuo – Henry Purcell (21st March)
  2. Allegro from Concerto II: Il favorito for violin, strings & continuo in e, Opus 11, RV 277 – Antonio Vivaldi (6th April) 
  3. Hornpippe from Ouverture-Suite in C for strings & continuo – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (20th April) *World Premiere Recording*

Musicians
Adrian Chandler, violin & director
Oliver Cave, violin I 
Abel Balazs, violin I
Rodrigo Checa, violin I
Samuel Staples, violin II
Henrietta Haynes, violin II
James O’Toole, violin II
Ellen Bundy, violin II 
Oliver Wilson, viola
Thomas Kettle, viola
Thomas Kirby, viola
Vladimir Waltham, continuo cello 
Carina Drury, cello
Cecelia Bruggemeyer, double bass
Lynda Sayce, theorbo, guitar & colascione
Robin Bigwood, harpsichord

Bach meets HEMF

21/03/2023 11:00 EET (21/03/2023 10:00 CET)

Bach meets HEMF On-site

Helsinki Early Music Festival Finland
Metro Helsinki, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Helsinki
Solo Bach on viola along the metro line in Helsinki.



 

Musicians
Laura Kajander, viola.
Alessandro Scarlatti on 360°

21/03/2023 18:30 CET

Alessandro Scarlatti on 360° Online

BAROCCO EUROPEO Italy
Salone Abbaziale Sesto al Reghena, On line, Sesto al Reghena
Sharing on YouTube of the live recording of our concert dedicated to Alessandro Scarlatti's Cantatas for Bass.The peculiarity of these videos is that they are "immersive" videos for being recorded at 360°. The spectator feels at the center of the performing group and can orientate himself to frame the various musicians by moving the (mobile) device in space!
Musicians
CENACOLO MUSICALE

Patrizio La Placa – Basso

Gabriele Politi, Leonardo Bellesini –  violini
Cristina Vidoni- violoncello
Fabiano Merlante – tiorba
Donatella Busetto – organo

Tecnico Video 360°: Tommaso Fabi
Tecnico audio: Trevisanut Andrea


Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset au Festival BACHFEST LEIPZIG le 11 juin 2022 -  Hamburg 1786

21/03/2023 19:00 CET

Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset au Festival BACHFEST LEIPZIG le 11 juin 2022 - Hamburg 1786 Online

Les Talens Lyriques France
Paris
Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset à la Thomaskirche de Leipzig
« Hamburg, 1786 », BachFest Leipzig
Recréation du programme dirigé par Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach à Hamburg en 1786
Musicians
Rachel Redmond Soprano
Hagar Sharvit Mezzo-soprano
William Knight Ténor
Kresimir Strazanac Basse

Vocalconsort Berlin
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset Direction
Caught in the Current

02/04/2023 19:00 BST (02/04/2023 20:00 CEST)

Caught in the Current On-site

Ensemble Tramontana United Kingdom
St Mary the Virgin Parish Church Lewisham, 346 Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LE, UNITED KINGDOM, London
A little tail of a concert just after all the March concerts for Early Music Day!  Suitable for Lent, Passiontide, Palm Sunday, Holy Week. Water is a metaphor for God as the source of all life but also of great destruction. Despite our best intentions, we are swept from the nourishing fountainhead to flail through the streams and rivers of accumulating hardships to the deep wrathful sea . . . and then beyond. This journey is reflected in the texts of our medieval and Renaissance music. 
Musicians
 Louise Eekelaar - soprano
Paul Alexei Smith - countertenor
Eszter Komáromi - tenor viol
Esha Neogy - tenor viol
Amanda Seaborn - bass viol 
Discover Opera Fuoco's documentary about B Minor Mass from JS Bach

21/03/2023 10:00 CET

Discover Opera Fuoco's documentary about B Minor Mass from JS Bach Online

Opera Fuoco France
Bachfest Leipzig, 12 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
For this performance of JS Bach's B-minor Mass, the configuration of the chorus in front of the orchestra follow the placement Bach regularly for choral works with instrumental accompaniment during his year as Thomas Cantor despite some modifications made to the organ loft in the 19th century.
Musicians
David Stern – Direction
Clemens Haudum - Chorus master

Theodora Raftis – soprano
Adèle Charvet – mezzo-soprano (Shanghai, Leipzig)
Andreas Scholl – alto
Andrés Agudelo – tenor
Laurent Naouri – bass baritone

Tölzer Knabenchor (Munich)
Opera Fuoco Orchestra

With Christoph Wolff
Esposta Musica - Concerto Incognito

26/03/2023 18:30 CEST

Esposta Musica - Concerto Incognito On-site

IXDeae APS Italy
Spazio Arrivabene, Via Arrivabene 2 , Mantova
Un concerto dove i musicisti non si manifestano e l'architettura di un palazzo storico si intreccia con le risonanze degli strumenti.
Un concerto tutto dedicato alla musica veneziana di Vivaldi e di Marcello.

Musicians
Introducono
Simone Spiritelli - Spazio Arrivabene
Mirko Gragnato - Presidente IXDeae APS

violino solo: Maria Pia Scalari
oboe solista: Francesco Mironi
chitarra solista: Tommaso Consoli

ensemble GLI ARCHI DI ISABELLA
violini: Michele Braghini, Serena Martini, Maria Pia Scalari, Anna Gauli
viola: Alessia Caniato
violoncello: Emma Carlini, Jacopo Menzà
contrabasso: Matteo Spaggiari
chitarra: Tommaso Consoli
oboe: Francesco Mironi
direttore Viera Dzavikova

Barthold Kuijken et Les Curiosités esthétiques - De Marin Marais à Jean-Sébastien Bach

24/03/2023 20:00 CET

Barthold Kuijken et Les Curiosités esthétiques - De Marin Marais à Jean-Sébastien Bach On-site

Cité musicale-Metz France
Arsenal, 3 Avenue Ney, Metz
Un compagnonnage artistique de plus de 30 ans lie Jean-Pierre Pinet au flûtiste Barthold Kuijken, le second était le professeur du premier au Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles. L'élève rend hommage au maître lors de retrouvailles très attendues. 
Musicians
Kuijken Barthold, Pinet Jean-Pierre traverso
Mangot Étienne violoncelle
Bernhardt Vincent clavecin
ORQUESTA BARROCA DE SEVILLA - Jonathan Cohen, conductor

21/03/2023 19:30 CET (21/03/2023 19:30 CET)

ORQUESTA BARROCA DE SEVILLA - Jonathan Cohen, conductor On-site

Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) & Acción Cultural Española (ACE) Spain
Auditorio Nacional de Música (Madrid) , Príncipe de Vegara 146, 28002 Madrid
 
This concert will mark the first collaboration of the Seville Baroque Orchestra (Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla) with Jonathan Cohen, founder and conductor of the Arcangelo ensemble. A match that will definitively bring out the timbre variety of this great baroque orchestra through the music of four of the most exalted masters of the 17th century as a celebration of the Early Music Day. From one of Handel's Water Music suites to those taken from Rameau's operas, passing through Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 or the Zelenka's superb Simphonie à 8 concertanti (so rarely attended, due to its difficulty!), the concert is presented as a true virtuosic tour de force and as a resounding triumph of color and melody.

This concert is a coproduction of the Spanish National Centre for the Promotion of Music (CNDM, Madrid) and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

Programme
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Simphonie à 8 concertanti, ZWV 189 (1723)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concierto de Brandeburgo nº 1 en fa mayor, BWV 1046 (1721)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1638-1764)
Suite de Les Indes galantes, RCT 144 (1735)
Suite de Les Boréades, RCT 31 (1763)
George Frideric Haendel (1685-1759)
Suite nº 1 en fa mayor de Música acuática, HWV 348 (1715) 
Sparkling Haendel

21/03/2023 19:00 EET (21/03/2023 18:00 CET)

Sparkling Haendel On-site

Bucharest Early Music festival Romania
Royal Suffrageria (Royal Palace / National Museum of Art of Romania ~ Auditorium Hall, Strada Știrbei Vodă, , București
G. Fr. Haendel (1685 – 1759):
Major Concert Op. 6 2: Little Wanderer – Cheerful – Wide – Cheerful but not too much
Concert in fa major op 4, Nr 4, HWV 292 – harps only, chords: Allegro – Walking – Adagio – Allegro
Süsse Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205 - soprano, violin and continuo
Triosonata in soil minor, HWV 391 - two violins and basso continuo: Andante - Allegro - Arioso - Allegro
Meine Soul hort im Sehen, HWV 207 - soprano, violin and contino
Concert in flat major, HWV 288 - violin, strings, continuation: Andante - Adagio - Allegro
Crudel Tyrant Love, HWV 97 – soprano, corzi, continuation: Allegro – Recital – Larghetto – Recital – Allegro

Musicians
Baroque Music Ensemble #SEMPRE:
Cristina Vasilache - soprano
Mircea Ionescu / Rafael Butaru / Mircea Grigore Lazar - Baroque violin
Tamara Dica - Baroque Viola
Lazár Zsombor - Baroque cello
Battle of István - violin
Andrej Jovanic - Baroque Guitar (Belgrade)
Raluca Aenea - Harpsichord
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