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6 – 17 August 2013: a unique and exciting music festival in the south of France

The 9th annual Musique-Cordiale International Festival & Academy will take place this summer – Seillans, Mons, Bargemon, Claviers, Callian, Bagnols-en-Forêt, Saint-Raphaël, Pays de Fayence

Dvorak Stabat Mater • Mozart Concerto for Flute & Harp • Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music • Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 & Symphony No 87 • Britten Rejoice in the Lamb • Prokoviev Peter & The Wolf • Graham Ross

Purcell • Blow • Bach Motets • Handel Opera Arias & Dixit Dominus • Charpentier Le Reniement de Saint Pierre • David Bates La Nuova Musica

Classic Meets Jazz • KLAZZ Brothers • Michel Tirabosco

FULL 2013 PROGRAMME: 20 concerts including 9 FREE!
Academy: 3-10 August Read more

TICKETS: Tickets available at the door or from l’Office de Tourisme (Tourist Office) in Seillans from 1 July:
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26 JUNE 2013: Gala Fund-raiser: Champagne, Dinner & Musical Entertainment

February 28, 2013

Something for your diary if you might be in the Var in late June: Musique Cordiale Gala Fund-raiser: Champagne, Dinner & Musical Entertainment: 26 JUNE 2013… dîner de gala avec animation musicale & Champagne! Notre musicale et gastronomique collecte de fonds pour 2013. 26 Juin 2013 à Seillans – Salle Polyvalente à 19h00
Information here

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Your festival in the south of France

January 23, 2013

Musique Cordiale International Festival 2013 SEILLANS 6 – 17 AUGUST 2013 (Academy 3-10 August)
Welcome to the 9th Festival called Musique Cordiale, your international music festival & academy in the South of France. Here is where high quality music, sunshine and warmth, combined with good food and conviviality are the ingredients for a wonderful holiday.
This year,

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Academy

January 22, 2013

Musique Cordiale Academy 3 – 10 August 2013
Continuing the tradition of the Music Academy for young musicians as an integral part of the International Music Festival Musique Cordiale, this season we are offering an enhanced programme for young players of orchestral instruments for capable students aged between 13 and 17. The students will receive

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Programme

January 18, 2013

Musique Cordiale Festival 2013
The 9th annual Musique-Cordiale international festival is scheduled to take place from 6-17 August 2013 with the Academy assembling in the previous week and rehearsals beginning on 4 August. The festival features 20 concerts, of which 9, including the “amuse bouche” opening concert and a jazz concert in Saint-Raphaël, will be free. Venues are

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2013 is to be the 9th year

January 16, 2013

The 9th annual Musique-Cordiale international festival is scheduled to take place from 6-17 August 2013 with the Academy assembling in the previous week and rehearsals beginning on 4 August. The festival features 17 concerts, of which 6, including the “amuse bouche” opening concert, will be free. Venues are the medieval hill towns of Seillans, Bargemon, Mons, Callian, Bagnols-en-Forêt, Correns and Claviers in the Var,

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Lunchtime Concerts

January 6, 2013

2013: CONCERTS 2, 5, 8, 12 & 15
We will continue to use the Chappelle Notre Dame de l’Ormeau, one of the most beautiful monuments in Seillans, for free Lunch-time concerts. The 12th century Chapelle de l’Ormeaut, lies at the southern entrance to the village, opposite the old railway station, which was once part of the

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Opera & Ensembles

January 2, 2013

Between 6 and 17 August, there is to be a full and diverse programme of 17 concerts during the 2013 festival. The expanded Academy for young and talented music students will take place for a week from 3-10 August and the orchestra & La Nuova Musica, our ensemble in residence for 2013, will deliver ardent

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CONCERTS 2013

Tuesday 6 August

CONCERT 1: 19h30, Eglise de MONS
Festival Prologue: Concert "Amuse Bouche"
programme to be announced: details to follow
OPENING CONCERT
free entry

Wednesday 7 August

CONCERT 2: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chapelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Lunchtime concert
Free entry

CONCERT 3: 19h30, Eglise de SEILLANS
Members of La Nuova Musica
David Bates, conductor
HANDEL: Operatic arias & Dixit Dominus
(ARIAS SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
Overture - Issipile Conti
Ombra mai Fu – Xerses Handel
Un pensiero nemico di pace – Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Handel
Per le porte del tormento – Sosarme Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – Solomon Handel
Revenge Thimotheus Cries – Alexander’s Feast Handel
Where ere you walk – Semele Handel
Overture - Corialono Ariosti
Piangero v'adoro– Giulio Cesare Handel
Io’Tabbracco – Rodelinda Handel
Vivi Tiranno – Rodelinda Handel
The many rend the skies with loud applause - Alexander’s Feast Handel

DIXIT DOMINUS Handel
Tickets: 20€

Thursday 8 August

CONCERT 4: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chapelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Lunchtime concert
Free entry

CONCERT 5: 19h30, Eglise de CLAVIERS
Concert of Musique Cordiale Soloists
Graham Ross, conductor
PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D
John Shaddock, trumpet
MOZART: Divertimento in D
HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major
Chiara Enderle, cello
MOZART: Concerto for flute & harp
Michel Tirabosco, pan-pipes
Tanya Houghton, harp
Tickets : 15€

PLUS (in association with St Raphaël).....

CONCERT 6: in association with la ville de Saint Raphaël
21h00 St RAPHAËL, Parvis des Templiers
KLAZZ BROTHERS & Maria Markesini: 'Cinema Passionata'
Free entry

Friday 9 August

CONCERT 7: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chapelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Members of the Musique-Cordiale Academy 2013
Lunchtime concert
Free entry

CONCERT 8: 19h30, Eglise de SEILLANS
Musique-Cordiale Academy 2013 Concert with orchestra
Graham Ross, conductor
MOZART: Divertimento in D, K. 136 (for strings)
HAYDN: Cello Concert No. 2 in D major
Chiara Enderle, cello
HAYDN: Symphonia Concertante for violin, oboe, basson & cello
Lavinia Price, Lisa Gross, Lara Morger & Chiara Enderle
MOZART: Concerto for Flute & Harp
Michel Tirabosco, panpipes & Tanya Houghton, Harp
HAYDN: Symphony No. 87

Tickets: 15€

Saturday 10 August :

CONCERT 9: 19h30, SEILLANS, out of doors (weather permitting), Place du Valat
Classic meets Jazz
KLAZZ BROTHERS – Swingin' the Classics
Tickets 15€

Sunday 11 August

CONCERT 10: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chappelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Lunchtime concert
Free entry

CONCERT 11: 19h30, Eglise de BARGEMON
Orchestral concert
Graham Ross, conductor
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music with La Nuova Musica
MOZART: Flute and Harp Concerto
Michel Tirabosco, pan-pipes
Tanya Houghton, harp
PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf
Narrator: John Amis
Tickets: 15€

Monday 12 August

CONCERT 12: 21h, Salle Polyvalente, SEILLANS
MUSIQUE du MONDE
(Details to be confirmed)
Michel Tirabosco,pan-pipes,
Sophie Tirabosco (voix),
Jean-Marie Reboul, piano..... & friends
Tickets: 15€

Tuesday 13 August

CONCERT 13: 21h30, Eglise de CORRENS
Odes, Anthems and a Maque
Members of La Nuova Musica
David Bates, conductor
PURCELL: Come ye sons of Art
PURCELL: My Beloved Spake
CHARPENTIER: Le Reniement de S Pierre
BLOW: God Spake sometimes in Visions
BLOW: Venus & Adonis
Tickets: 15€

Wed 14 August

CONCERT 14: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chappelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Lunchtime concert
Free entry

Wednesday 14 August

CONCERT 15: 19h30, Eglise de Seillans
Choral Concert & Peter and the Wolf
Graham Ross conductor
PURCELL: Hear my prayer, O Lord
BRUCKNER: Locus iste
BRUCKNER: Christus factus est
BRITTEN: Rejoice in the Lamb
BRAHMS: Geistliches Lied
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music with LNM and orchestra
PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf
Narrator: John Amis
Tickets: 20€

Thursday 15 August

CONCERT 16: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chappelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Lunchtime concert
Free entry

CONCERT 17: 19h30, Eglise de BAGNOLS-en-FORET
Members of La Nuova Musica
David Bates, conductor
BACH motets & HANDEL Dixit Dominus
BACH: Komm Jesu, Komm BWV 229
BACH: Cello Suite 1/2
Chiara Enderle, cello
BACH: Lobet Den Herrn BWV 230
BACH: Cello Suite 2/2
Chiara Enderle, cello
BACH: Der Geist Hilft unser schwachheit auf BWV 226
BACH: Violin Concerto (TBC)
BACH: Singet dem Herrn BWV 225
HANDEL: Dixit Dominus
Tickets : 15€

Fri 16 August

CONCERT 18: 12h30, SEILLANS
Chapelle de Notre Dame de l’Ormeau
Lunctime concert
Free entry

CONCERT 19: 19h30, Eglise de CALLIAN
Grand Concert with choir and orchestra
Graham Ross, conductor
DVORAK: Stabat Mater (soloists, choir + orchestra)
Tickets: 20€

Saturday 17 August

CONCERT 20: 19h30, Eglise de SEILLANS
Grand Closing Concert with choir & orchestra
Graham Ross, conductor
DVORAK: Stabat Mater (soloists, choir + orchestra)
Tickets: 20€

Part-festival, part-reunion for friends, Musique Cordiale attracts a small army of singers and musicians to idyllic hilltop towns across the Var in southern France. The concerts are of surprising quality, thanks to uber-tenor Andrew Staples and the stunning young professionals he ropes in to help. This year it’s Poulenc, Britten, Mozart. Seriously sociable. Read more…

“A modest, slightly mad but hugely sociable spot of Anglo-French entente” – that’s how the Telegraph characterises Musique Cordiale in its classical music festivals 2010 summer guide.

“A fortnight’s fresh, unpretentious and sociable music-making in a village near Nice between student professionals, established names and good amateurs.” The Arts Desk