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Rediscovered seventeenth-century "Pièces de violle"The first complete Demachy recording by Flore Seube
With her complete recording of Sieur Demachy’s “Pièces de violle”, Flore Seube gives voice once again to a mysterious figure of the Grand Siècle. The result of ten years of research and an intimate engagement with this repertoire, this recording reveals a sophisticated, lively, and refined style of viol music that balances textual fidelity, French sensibility, and the art of polyphony.
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Musikfest ION & BR-KLASSIK – live and streamedA Musical Night in Nuremberg to Open the ION Festival
With Nuremberg’s Grand Musical Night, the ION Festival and the radio and television broadcaster BR-KLASSIK aim to take early music beyond the traditional concert hall and bring it into public life. Thorsten Preuß, deputy head of music at BR/ARD’s Nuremberg studio, reflects on the event, what it represents, and his broadcaster’s commitment to early music.
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The story of an organ and a ruined abbey40 Years of the Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Festival
From a ruined abbey on the Franco-Belgian border, in northern France, Jean-Michel Verneiges decided to create a festival. And with good reason: the abbey houses a precious treasure, a historic organ three hundred years old. Today, the Baroque festival of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache celebrates its 40th anniversary, from 7 June to 5 July, with a special anniversary edition featuring 12 concerts and bringing together leading figures in the field, including Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI, Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge, Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, and the French viol player Lucile Boulanger.
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Benjamin AlardBach: Chaconnes BWV 1178 & 1179
With this new release, Benjamin Alard adds two freshly authenticated works to his ambitious complete recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard music. Centred on two chaconnes recently restored to the Cantor, the French keyboard player continues his exploration of an instrumental world in which dance, variation and contrapuntal architecture come together in the same expressive concentration.
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Dmytro KokoshynskyyMusic for These Troubled Times
With this first solo recording, harpsichordist Dmytro Kokoshynskyy offers far more than a journey through the golden age of the English virginalists. Centred on Tallis, Byrd, Bull, Gibbons and Dowland, among others, he builds an intimate meditation on music as refuge, remedy and mirror of troubled times, extended into our own day by KHORA by the composer Maxim Shalygin.
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Forests, Hanseatic Cities and Royal TheatresNORTHERN & EASTERN EUROPE
From the palaces of Stockholm to the abbeys of Slovenia, from the Baltic shores to the royal theatres of Scandinavia, early music traces a summer route through Northern and Eastern Europe. Baroque operas, Renaissance polyphony, intimate festivals, and major international gatherings bring heritage, spirituality, and creativity into dialogue, at the heart of landscapes long absent from the major musical maps of Europe.
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Between Major Cities, Historic Churches, and Summer AcademiesCANADA – UNITED STATES
From Quebec to British Columbia, from Maine to California, Canada and the United States reveal another geography of early music. Between Baroque festivals, summer academies, major urban venues and more intimate settings, Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, and Purcell meet North American musical energy, through a blend of tradition, rediscovery, and historically informed performance.
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