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Mandol’in Marseille & Vincent Beer-DemanderA New Golden Age for the Mandolin in Marseille
From June 30 to July 6, Mandol’in Marseille returns for a sixth edition, honouring Vladimir Cosma. At the helm of the festival, Vincent Beer-Demander continues a long-term mission: restoring Marseille’s mandolin heritage, fostering dialogue between tradition, creation, and transmission, and demonstrating that an instrument long relegated to the margins can once again become a vibrant laboratory for musical innovation.
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40 Years of lautten compagney BERLINWolfgang Katschner: “Early music remains alive only if it dares to confront the present”
Founded in the former East Germany in the 1980s, lautten compagney BERLIN recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. Today, it continues to multiply original projects, this year with countertenor Reginald Mobley, as well as a new roundtable format centered on the songbooks of John Dowland. Not to mention the KALIT Festival at the end of August, bringing together music and literature. Wolfgang Katschner, 65, the ensemble’s founder, tells us its story, which is also, in part, the story of his own life.
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Pablo Agudo López & Les ImpertinencesBestiario: Baroque in the Wild
With “Bestiario”, Les Impertinences plunges into a free, raw, and virtuosic seventeenth century, where instruments imitate animals, bodies, cries, dance, and the tumult of the world. Around Biber, Farina, Uccellini, and Du Mont, Venezuelan violinist and director Pablo Agudo López embraces an unruly baroque style, fueled by improvisation and Latin American traditions.
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Grand Night of Early MusicThree major concerts to watch live from Nuremberg
Solomon’s Knot at 7 p.m., Maayan Licht and {oh!} Orkiestra at 8.45 p.m., Chanticleer at 10.30 p.m.: this Friday, for the Fête de la Musique, Total Baroque Magazine invites you to watch Nuremberg’s “Grand Night of Early Music” live from Germany, in an evening of vocal virtuosity, sacred theatre and American polyphony. The three concerts will then remain available to watch on replay until December.
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Young TalentsMarie Nadeau-Tremblay: Where Violin Meets Vocation
Marie Nadeau-Tremblay’s name has risen like a rocket through Quebec’s Baroque music scene in recent years. The colourful violinist, who has built a series of recording projects far off the beaten path, reflects on her journey, her artistic convictions, and the place of art in North American society today.
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Freiburger BarockorchesterHans Georg Kaiser: A Legacy Shared
Since 1989, Hans-Georg Kaiser has accompanied the Freiburger Barockorchester on its rise to international recognition. Today, at the age of 64, the orchestra’s manager and general director for the past 37 years has decided to step down on July 1 and entrust the ensemble’s continued development to a new leadership team: Selma Brauns, artistic director, and Paul Enke, commercial director. Together, they are tasked with shaping the future of an ensemble that is now counted among the world’s leading orchestras performing on historical instruments. Hans-Georg Kaiser reflects on his career and on the orchestra’s new prospects.
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The Splendour and Twilight of Jacques DuphlyLoris Barrucand Pays Tribute to the Last Master of the French Harpsichord
With “Éclats et derniers feux”, harpsichordist Loris Barrucand returns to the French clavecin master Jacques Duphly, a discreet composer of the Enlightenment whose music has accompanied him since his student years. Conceived as a “shattered mirror”, this anthology reveals the many facets of an art at once refined, brilliant and tender, at the moment when the harpsichord, soon to be supplanted by the pianoforte, casts its final glow.
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Michael Maul & Bachfest 2026In Leipzig, a hit parade of Bach’s cantatas!
In Leipzig, Bach is no longer simply celebrated: placed “Im Dialog” (“In Dialogue”), the theme chosen for 2026, he becomes a living, shared experience. From June 11 to 21, the Bachfest takes the form of a participatory festival, in which audiences from around the world contribute to the programming, beginning with a chart-topping countdown of Bach’s cantatas. Michael Maul, the festival’s director, speaks about this collective adventure, bringing together heritage, research, and leading performers.
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