For its 43rd edition, the Maguelone Early Music Festival embraces the theme of “resonances” through a dialogue between scholarly repertoires and popular heritage, carried by reference ensembles and young groups.
The 43rd edition of the Early Music Festival in Maguelone is under the theme “Resonances”. It is about exploring the links between scholarly music and popular traditions, showing how songs, dances and popular musical practices have nourished the great works of the European repertoire. Faithful to its approach of bringing together heritage, creation and transmission, the festival brings together several reference ensembles from the scene old as well as young emerging artists.
Un spectacle à Montpellier
The opening concert, this Thursday at 9 p.m. at Maguelone Cathedral, will be entrusted to the I Gemelli ensemble and the tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, for a journey into 17th century baroque Italy. Among the highlights, we note the return of the Doulce Mémoire ensemble with “Musique de Joye”, which, on Saturday at 9 p.m., delivers a program devoted to the songs and dances of the French Renaissance. Emergence will be embodied by the Theodora ensemble, Sunday at 10:45 a.m. This training will explore the influence of French taste in the German courts of the end of the 17th century.
There is also a meeting in Montpellier, Wednesday June 10 at 11 a.m. at the Émile-Zola media library, with the La Rêveuse ensemble which presents a musical conference devoted to birds in the history of music.
