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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Découvrez le nouvel enregistrement du Banquet Céleste

21/03/2023 10:00 CET

Découvrez le nouvel enregistrement du Banquet Céleste Online

Le Banquet Céleste France
Opera de Rennes - Place de la Mairie - 35000 Rennes, Rennes
Online Medieval Women Singing Workshop

21/03/2023 11:00 UTC (21/03/2023 12:00 CET)

Online Medieval Women Singing Workshop Online

The Telling United Kingdom
Online, London
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.
Musicians
Clare Norburn, soprano
(in)sight-reading enlightenment/the history of female composers

21/03/2023 14:00 UTC (21/03/2023 15:00 CET)

(in)sight-reading enlightenment/the history of female composers Online

(in)sight-reading enlightenment podcast Switzerland
Online, Bâle
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.
Musicians
Darina Ablogina traverso/speaker
Liane Sadler taverso/speaker
Francesca Gaza singer/speaker
Dakota Wayne speaker
Händel jazzt! Peel me a grape

21/03/2023 15:00 CET

Händel jazzt! Peel me a grape Online

Int. Händel Festspiele Göttingen Germany
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.
Musicians
Anette von Eichel - Vocals
Marko Lackner - Saxophone
Sebastian Sternal - Piano
Henning Sieverts - Bass
Jonas Burgwinkel - Drums
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
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 
CD Release - Bach's Instrumental Music Vol. 3

21/03/2023 12:00 CET

CD Release - Bach's Instrumental Music Vol. 3 Online

il Gusto Barocco Germany
werastraße 22, Stuttgart
To celebrate J. S. Bach's birthday, il Gusto Barocco releases its 3rd CD dedicated to Bach's instrumental music with the label Berlin Classis. On this occasion, the flautist Claire Genewein will guide us through the album with her traverso playing the partita for solo flute, the orchestral suite no. 2 and together with Jörg Halubek on harpsichord and Anaïs Chen on violin, playing the triple concerto. Happy birthday Johann!
Musicians
 Jörg Halubek | Cembalo certato and Direction
Claire Genewein | Flauto traverso
Anaïs Chen | Violino certato
Eva Saladin | Violine I
Felicia Graf | Violine II
Sonoko Asabuki | Viola
Jonathan Pešek | Violoncello
Fred-Walter Uhlig | Violone
Girolamo Abos | Stabat Mater

21/03/2023 20:30 CET

Girolamo Abos | Stabat Mater Online

Festivals Malta Malta
Church of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, Tarxien, Triq Il Kbira, Ħal Tarxien, VG87+4C9 Ħal Tarxien
The Valletta Baroque Ensemble will be performing the exquisite work by the Italo-Maltese composer Girolamo Abos, Stabat Mater, which was composed within the tradition of contemporary Neapolitan settings meant for the Roman Catholic Holy week liturgy. It is considered to be one of Abos' most representative masterpieces.
Musicians
Edited by Joseph Vella
Realised by Geoffrey Thomas

Valletta Baroque Ensemble:

Sarah Spiteri - violin/leader
Tatjana Chircop - violin
Jacob Portelli - cello
Joanne Camilleri - organ
Simone Vallerotonda - theorbo
Gillian Zammit - Soprano
Francesca Aquilina - Soprano
Raisa Marie Micallef - Alto
Musica Maestri!

21/03/2023 18:00 CET

Musica Maestri! Online

Conservatorio di musica "Giuseppe Verdi" di Milano Italy
Chiesa San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, Milan, Corso Magenta Milano 15, Milan
The Fantastic Organ: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Le Toccate del II libro
Musicians
Ivana Valotti, professor of organ at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Music in Milan, Italy.
Georg Philipp Telemann - Ouverture & Concerti

21/03/2023 12:00 CET (21/03/2023 12:00 CET)

Georg Philipp Telemann - Ouverture & Concerti Online

Accademia del Ricercare Italy
Museo Borgogna, Vercelli, Via Antonio Borgogna 4, Vercelli
Ouverture in A minor TWV 55: a2
Ouverture, Les Plaisirs, Air à l'Italien, Menuet I
Alternative II, Rejuissance, Passepied I/II, Polonaise

For recorder, strings and Basso Continuo

Concerto polonais TWV 43: G7

For strings and B.C.
Dolce, allegro, largo, allegro

Concerto in A minor TWV 52: A1
Grave, Allegro, Dolce, Allegro

Viola da gamba, Flute, Strings and Bass Continuo

Concerto in E minor TWV 52:e1
Largo, Allegro, Largo, Presto

For recorder, transverse flute, strings and basso continuo
Musicians
Luisa Busca, recorder
Lorenzo Cavasanti, recorder and transverse flute
Luca Taccardi, viola da Gamba
Elisa Imbalzano, Valeria Caponnetto
Yayoi Masuda, Gabriele Cervia,  violins
Elena Saccomandi, Viola da braccio
Cecilia Medi - bassoon
Lorenzo Fantinuoli - cello
Federico Bagnasco, violone
Claudia Ferrero, harpsichord
300 years - Bach’s 6th Suite

21/03/2023 22:56 CET

300 years - Bach’s 6th Suite Online

Amarilis Dueñas Castán Germany
Thürmchenswall 56, Cologne
In order to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the 6th Bach Suite and also his arrival to Leipzig, I want to share with all of you a live recording of the Gigue… with Piccolo cello, of course! 
Musicians
Amarilis Dueñas, violoncello Piccolo 
Fantasia – The Art of Counterpoint during the reigns of James I and Charles I

24/03/2023 21:00 CET (24/03/2023 21:00 CET)

Fantasia – The Art of Counterpoint during the reigns of James I and Charles I Online

Grandezze & Meraviglie - Festival Musicale Estense Italy
Via San Carlo 5, , 41121 Modena
Publication of the video of the concert "Fantasia - The Art of Counterpoint during the reigns of James I and Charles I" (Teatro San Carlo, Modena, 19/03/2023) on Grandezze & Meraviglie's YouTube and Facebook channels
Musicians
Il Concerto delle Viole:
Roberto Gini, soprano viols, tenor viols, basse viols
Patxi Montero, soprano viols, tenor viols, basse viols
Marco Angilella, basse viols
Concert - Anima e Corpo

21/03/2023 20:00 CET

Concert - Anima e Corpo Online

Département de musique ancienne du CRR de Perpignan France
Refectory of the Abbots (Béziers), 14 rue du Puits de la Courte, Béziers
Tuesday 21 March at 8pm - Concert - Early Music Department of the CRR of Perpignan in collaboration with the Réseau Occitanie Méditerranée - Réfectoire des Abbés (Béziers)
 
Title :
Anima e Corpo
 
Programme:
The top students of the early music departments of the ROM are coming together to work on a work that is a milestone in the history of music: La rappresentatione di anima e di corpo, a musical drama by Emilio de' Cavalieri with an Italian libretto by Agostino Manni, premiered in Rome in February 1600.
 
Twenty or so singing students and as many instrumentalists from the conservatories of Perpignan, Béziers and Montpellier are involved in this project: violins, cellos, recorders, sackbut, serpent, lute, harpsichord, organ and harp.
 
 
Josep Cabré, baritone, was a student of Christopher Schmidt and Kurt Widmer in Basel, as well as of Lise Arseguet in Paris and Jordi Albareda in his native Barcelona. He has been a guest soloist with the most prestigious early music ensembles, and is also the founder of the vocal quartet La Colombina, with which he has developed a large part of his concert and recording activity, as well as the Compagnie Musicale, which performs small-scale repertoires from plainsong to polyphony, and recovers Renaissance and Baroque music in Catalonia. He was musical director of the Capilla Peñaflorida in San Sebastian and of the Pamplona Chamber Choir and its professional ensemble Nova Lux from 2009 to 2012. He also teaches at Musikene (the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country) and at the CRR of Perpignan, and is regularly invited to give master classes on ancient repertoires by various university and musical institutions. This activity is reflected in numerous recordings, which have often won awards from specialist critics.
 
A graduate of the Poitiers and Versailles Conservatories in recorder, Fanette Estrade continued her instrumental training at the Early Music Department in Toulouse, and then at the Higher Conservatory of Music in Barcelona. Since then, she has extended her instrumental practice to the ancient bassoon, the bagpipes and singing. She holds a certificate of aptitude in early music and currently teaches the recorder at the Conservatoire national de région de Perpignan.
 
Free admission subject to availability
Musicians
Cast:
Josep Cabré, conductor
Fanette Estrade, coordination
Early Music Department of the CRR of Perpignan in collaboration with the Réseau Occitanie Méditerranée (ROM)
Early Music Day - "Was once all lascivious"

21/03/2023 22:30 CET (21/03/2023 22:30 CET)

Early Music Day - "Was once all lascivious" Online

The Kameleon Choir of the Mokotów District Poland
Youth Cultural Centre of Mokotów, Warsaw, Poland, 97 Puławska street, , Warszawa
The recording of the satirical song "Fear of the bad things of human life" to the words of one of the most important figures of the Polish Renaissance, Mikołaj Rej, made in the historic building of the former Institute of Morally Neglected Children.
Musicians
The Kameleon Choir of the Mokotów District conducted by Katarzyna Maria Boniecka
Concert – Élèves du CRR de Perpignan - L’Italie en 1600

18/03/2023 11:00 CET

Concert – Élèves du CRR de Perpignan - L’Italie en 1600 Online

Élèves du CRR de Perpignan France
Théâtre municipal (Perpignan), 5 place de la République, Perpignan
Concert given from 11 am to 12.30 pm by the students of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) of Perpignan, as a preamble to the concert Anima e Corpo, proposed by the early music department of the CRR of Perpignan in collaboration with the Occitanie Méditerranée network, at the municipal theatre of Perpignan, on Saturday 18 March 2023, at 8.30 pm. 
 
Free admission subject to availability of seats
Musicians
Students of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) of Perpignan
The elegance of J. S. Bach's writing.

21/03/2023 23:00 CET

The elegance of J. S. Bach's writing. Online

Tania Birardi Italy
Italy , Milano
Conversation. Instagram live.
Musicians
C. S. (Tania) Birardi
Nouvelle création - JANUA - Présentation

21/03/2023 18:00 CET

Nouvelle création - JANUA - Présentation Online

Ensemble Irini France
63 rue de Tilsit , Marseille
Bolonian Baroque Masters

03/04/2023 12:00 CEST

Bolonian Baroque Masters Online

Corde Spezzate Ensemble Poland
Bolonian Baroque Masters, Stefana Żeromskiego 7C, Żyrardów
Performance miniatures sonatas form sonatas collection with pieces of various Bolonian composers of the end of XVII century.
Musicians
Daria Skrzypek - baroque violin
Paulina Garlińska - viola da gamba
Iberia and Latin America Compilations

29/03/2023 11:30 EDT (29/03/2023 17:30 CEST)

Iberia and Latin America Compilations Online

Patricia Garcia Gil United States
Vlogart Facebook page, 909 Magnolia Street, Greensboro
This is the first of a series of three mini leture recitals, published during the Early Music Month with the aim of shedding light to the importance of women from varied social spheres who collected keyboard music and/or transcribed manuscripts in Iberia and Latin America in the 18th century, which serve nowadays as a source for understanding the cultural transfer that occurred between the two continents. I will present musical selections performed on historical keyboards from the following compilations: the library of the Portuguese-Spanish Queen Maria Barbara; the manuscript owned by a Chilean black woman slave known as “Libro Sesto de Maria Antonia Palacios”; and the compilation named “Quaderno Mayner” for the use of Sra. Maria Guadalupe Mayner from Mexico, of unknown origin.
Musicians
Patricia Garcia Gil
Cantilena a 4 voci

20/03/2023 18:30 CET (20/03/2023 18:30 CET)

Cantilena a 4 voci Online

PassiSparsi Italy
Costa S. Giorgio 32, Firenze
Preview of the videoclip "Cantilena a 4 voci" composed by Vincenzo Galilei with lyrics by Dante Alighieri
Musicians
PassiSparsi
Martha Rook, soprano
Cora Mariani, mezzosoprano
Neri Landi, tenore
Lorenzo Tosi, basso
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