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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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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.
