In a bend of the Danube, 80 km from Vienna, Melk Abbey (Austria) hosts a Baroque music festival every year at Pentecost, set against an enchanting backdrop. Artistic director and tenor Michael Schade has just unveiled the 2026 edition.
Founded in 1980, the Ricercar label celebrates forty-five years of existence with quiet discretion. An opportunity to take stock with founder Jérôme Lejeune about the complicated economics of the CD, and its indispensable role as both a tool of memory and a musicological act.
At the helm of Cappella Mediterranea, Argentine conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón brings friends and partners into a sweeping saga that links libraries and stages, South America and Baroque Europe, record and video. And he insists: early music doesn’t exist. The moment it is performed, it becomes alive!
Medieval and Renaissance music are rarely heard in Berlin—a city otherwise bursting with musical richness. Singer Sarah Fuhs and flutist Amanda Markrwick, with their ensemble Titan’s Rising, are trying, along with a few others, to change this situation.
Laurent Brunner is taking Versailles to the world stage, from New York to Hanoi via Shanghai. In this second part of the interview, he explains how Château de Versailles Spectacles has built a unique model combining an in-house orchestra, an academy, and international touring.
Between baroque music, the Grandes Eaux, courtly festivities and masked balls, Château de Versailles Spectacles is a private cultural enterprise with multiple activities that has made the famous palace a vibrant hub of initiatives.
