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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The Conservatori celebrates Early Music Day

21/03/2023 18:30 UTC (21/03/2023 19:30 CET)

The Conservatori celebrates Early Music Day On-site

Conservatori Professional de Música de Menorca Spain
Ciutadella Cathedral, C/ Ca'l Bisbe, 8, Ciutadella
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).
Musicians
Orquestra de cordes dels Ensenyaments Professionals
Martín Lopesino
, solo oboe
Oliver Vinent, conductor

Chamber music groups
Un Paseo en Vihuela

25/09/2022 19:00 CEST

Un Paseo en Vihuela Online

Xivert Històric Spain
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista,, Plaza de la Iglesia, s/n, 12570 Alcalà de Xivert
A video selection of my concert at the above-mentioned venue last 25th September 2022.
Musicians
Joaquim Bogunyà, vihuelist
Jota Martínez book presentation: "Instrumentos para trovar y danzar en la Llíria del Siglo XIII".

21/03/2023 19:00 CET

Jota Martínez book presentation: "Instrumentos para trovar y danzar en la Llíria del Siglo XIII". On-site

CIMMedieval Spain
Tourist Office of Lliria. Valencia, C. San Vicente Ferrer, 19, 46160 Llíria, Valencia
In the municipality of Llíria is the church of Santa María, or "of the Blood", dating from the 13th century. It is a typical reconquest church of this area. Its possibly most valuable treasure is inside. It is a Gothic-Mudejar style roof, also from the 13th century, in a fairly optimal state of conservation. Observing the friezes of this coffered ceiling, we find various representations inspired by the courtly life of the time. Some of the characters represented are minstrels and troubadours who play musical instruments contemporary to the work of art and also dance or parade in procession.

Jota Martínez has carried out the organological study of all these musical representations, identifying a total of 19 instruments, some of them repeated, and as a result, the 10 different instruments that were captured in this interesting work of art have been reconstructed.

In this act the book that includes the studies and conclusions of him will be presented.
Musicians
Mara Aranda: Director of CIMMedieval.
Vicent Sesé-Aloy: Technician at Turisme Llíria.
José María Nácher Escriche: Professor University of Valencia.
Jota Martínez: Specialist in medieval musical instruments and author of the book.
Daniel Zapico - "Au Monde"

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

Daniel Zapico - "Au Monde" Online and On-site

Música Antigua Xixón - Fundación Municipal de Cultura (Ayuntamiento de Gijón) Spain
Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos, Plaza de Jovellanos, s/n, Gijón
Presentation of the album "Au Monde", by theorbo player Daniel Zapico, in which he presents new transcriptions of French baroque music for theorbo.
Musicians
Daniel Zapico, theorbo
Diverse Galant

26/03/2023 17:30 EDT (26/03/2023 23:30 CEST)

Diverse Galant On-site

Patricia Garcia Gil Spain
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Organ Hall, 1400 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC 27412, Greensboro
This is a live fortepiano recital featuring CPE Bach, Scarlatti and Soler on a Ferrini replica, followed by the Spanish and Latin American Galant composers Montero' s and Aldana's works, plus Haydn!, performed on a Walter replica. This project includes three lecture recitals that will be available online on the 29, 30 and 31 of March.
Musicians
Patricia Garcia Gil, fortepiano
Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra

17/03/2023 19:00 CET (17/03/2023 19:00 CET)

Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra On-site

Murcia University Orchestra Spain
Centro Cultural Adolfo Suárez, Cehegín, Centro Cultural Adolfo Suárez, Cehegín, Cehegín
Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra


Suite "Abdelazer"  (Selección) - Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
  1. Rondeau
  2. Air
  3. Minuet
  4. Jig
  5. Hornpipe
  6. Air

Concierto para flauta o trompeta N.6 "La Paix" (Selección) - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667 - 1737)
  1. Rondeau
  2. Overture
  3. Air en Rondeau y Air par imitation
  4. Branle en Rondeau
  5. Sommeil
  6. Le Retour de Moutier
  7. Pastourelle le I & II
  8. Gavotte
  9. Contredanse

Música para los reales fuegos de artificio: Suite HWV 351 - Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)
  1. Ouverture
  2. Bourrée
  3. La Paix
  4. La Réjouissance
  5. Minuet I & II
Video release - Telemann Canonic Sonata n.6

21/03/2023 07:30 CET (21/03/2023 07:30 CET)

Video release - Telemann Canonic Sonata n.6 Online

Celeritas Ensemble Spain
Westvest 90, 3111 BZ Schiedam, Schiedam
Follow the two voices of this rarely-performed canon with the guided score we have created! 
We invite you to follow the changing affects of the melody as the canon develops. 


Musicians
Celeritas Ensemble
Eduardo Gaspar Polo Baader, traverso
Julia Hernández Sánchez, violin
Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra

19/03/2023 12:30 CET (19/03/2023 12:30 CET)

Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra On-site

Murcia University Orchestra Spain
Teatro Circo Apolo, El Algar (Cartagena), Pl. Teatro Apolo, 0, 30366 El Algar, Murcia, Cartagena
Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra


Suite "Abdelazer"  (Selección) - Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
  1. Rondeau
  2. Air
  3. Minuet
  4. Jig
  5. Hornpipe
  6. Air

Concierto para flauta o trompeta N.6 "La Paix" (Selección) - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667 - 1737)
  1. Rondeau
  2. Overture
  3. Air en Rondeau y Air par imitation
  4. Branle en Rondeau
  5. Sommeil
  6. Le Retour de Moutier
  7. Pastourelle le I & II
  8. Gavotte
  9. Contredanse

Música para los reales fuegos de artificio: Suite HWV 351 - Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)
  1. Ouverture
  2. Bourrée
  3. La Paix
  4. La Réjouissance
  5. Minuet I & II
Spring concert by the Murcia University Orchestra

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

Spring concert by the Murcia University Orchestra On-site

Murcia University Orchestra Spain
Church of La Merced, Murcia, Iglesia conventual de La Merced - Calle Dr. Flemin, Murcia
 Family concert by the Murcia University Orchestra 
  
Suite "Abdelazer"  (Selección) - Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) 
  1. Rondeau
  2. Air
  3. Minuet
  4. Jig
  5. Hornpipe
  6. Air
Concierto para flauta o trompeta N.6 "La Paix" (Selección) - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667 - 1737)
 
  1. Rondeau
  2. Overture
  3. Air en Rondeau y Air par imitation
  4. Branle en Rondeau
  5. Sommeil
  6. Le Retour de Moutier
  7. Pastourelle le I & II
  8. Gavotte
  9. Contredanse
Música para los reales fuegos de artificio: Suite HWV 351 - Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)
 
  1. Ouverture
  2. Bourrée
  3. La Paix
  4. La Réjouissance
  5. Minuet I & II
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) 
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