Festival Programme 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 the jazz concert in Saint-Raphaël, will be free. Venues are the medieval hill towns of Seillans, Bargemon, Mons, Callian, Bagnols-en-Forêt, Correns and Claviers in the Var, France. Conductors are David Bates of La Nuova Musica and Graham Ross, Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge.

Works to be performed include Dvorak Stabat Mater, Mozart Symphony No 29, Rejoice in the Lamb, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music,  Handel Dixit Dominus, Charpentier Le Reniement de Saint Pierre  & John Blow, Venus & Adonis…… with a “Classic meets Jazz” evenings featuring Michel Tirabosco (pan-pipes) from Switzerland and Germany’s Klazz Brothers.

CONCERTS

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:  21h, 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€