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BEVERLEY AND EAST RIDING EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
06/05/2008
The National Centre for Early Music in York mounts three high-profile festivals of early music each year, in addition to their ongoing programme of events, the summer and Christmas festivals in York itself, and the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival (23–26 May 2008). |
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CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL
05/05/2008
4 to 19 July 2008.
The Cheltenham Festival, founded in 1945, has from its inception encouraged creativity, young artists and performances of recent works, sometimes played by the composers themselves. This policy is still firmly in place, as the first weekend’s concerts of this year’s festival attest: the events of 5 and 6 July will feature works from the early repertoire revisited by uninhibited musicians. |
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5 STAR : LA SERENISSIME ET LA SUBLIME PORTE
02/05/2008
Born in Turkey, but trained in France, musicologist and soprano Chimène Seymen is perhaps better placed than anyone to bring a comparative study of 17th-century Ottoman and European music to vivid life on the concert platform. This superb release features live performances from two ensembles, La Turchescha & Cevher i Musiki, both under the artistic direction of Seymen.
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15TH EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL AT ARACENA CASTLE
02/05/2008
29 June to 6 July 2008.
The Aracena Early Music Festival celebrates its fifteenth year with seven concerts running from 29 June to 6 July, including ensembles such as Tasto Solo and the Seville Baroque Orchestra, among others. |
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THE STYRIARTE FESTIVAL
30/04/2008
27 June to 27 July 2008.
The 2008 styriarte Festival (the name combines ‘styria’ – Styria being the Austrian province whose capital is Graz – and ‘arte’) stands out for the diversity and audacity of its programme. As styriarte’s Internet site explains, the festival was founded on the idea of “creating a stronger bond between Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the pioneering early music conductor, and Graz, his native city. |
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BAD KISSINGEN FESTIVAL
29/04/2008
For two centuries, Bad Kissingen was one of the most fashionable spas for European nobility. Russian tsars, Bavarian kings, and the Emperor of Austria and his wife Sissi all came to take the waters and participate in the town’s flourishing social life. |
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OREGON BACH FESTIVAL
28/04/2008
27 June to 13 July 2008.
The Oregon Bach Festival owes its existence to organist and conductor Helmuth Rilling. When Rilling first arrived in Eugene, Oregon in 1970, he organised a series of workshops followed by an informal concert. |
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5 STAR : CANTICUM CANTICORUM
25/04/2008
The sacred-erotic poetry of the Song of Songs has attracted many musical settings over the centuries. This anthology focuses on settings from the 16th and 17th centuries, opening with Lassus and Palestrina and closing with Purcell’s My Beloved Spake. In between we are treated to settings by Schütz, Mazzochi, Tomkins and Charpentier. |
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57TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DANCE - GRANADA. 39TH INTERNATIONAL MANUEL DE FALLA COURSES
24/04/2008
20 June to 6 July 2008.
The 57th year of the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance will be dedicated to the bicentennial of Spain’s bourgeois revolution of 1808 and to the celebration of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The Festival’s programme includes several outstanding concerts of early music. |
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ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL
23/04/2008
13 to 29 June.
Founded after World War II by Benjamin Britten as a vehicle for his music and music making with friends who came to include Sviatoslav Richter and Mstislav Rostropovitch, the Aldeburgh Festival has long outlived the composer’s death in 1976. 2008 will in fact be the 61st year of the festival, which is based on Snape Maltings, the superb concert hall situated in a beautiful landscape on the East Coast of England. |
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