Fabulous Music in the South of France!
International summer festival in the Var
Seillans & the Pays de Fayence, Provence, France
CONCERTS:
30 July – 10 August 2024
including Baroque delights, chamber & orchestral music and a little popular music and jazz, and featuring Verdi’s opera La Traviata & with the Verdi Requiem as the closing Choral concert.
It proved to be a fabulous festival in Provence again this summer; and soon the plans and organisation of the next one will begin all over again. Join us again in 2025 for our 21st year! Meanwhile some reviews, images and recordings from the summer of ’24 will be published here soon!
FREE lunch-time concerts around the Pays de Fayence – and one FREE evening concert (Callian 7 August): donations welcome!
Tickets for all other concerts available from our BOX OFFICE
Musique Cordiale is an annual summer festival, bringing together music, excitement and fun. Each year we invite a mix of established musicians with selected up-and-coming young talent from all over Europe to sing and play for our festival audiences, who include local and other French music-lovers as well an equally international – and loyal – group of people of all ages drawn to the area for Musique Cordiale. Members of the orchestra and choir form a variety of ensembles and, together with soloists, rehearse ready to share top-quality performances of classical music (and a little jazz) in an inviting Provencal ambiance that combines the food, wine, warmth and smells of summer in Provence with a programme of wonderful sights and sounds. Intimate up-close chamber music and instrumental recitals in charming medieval chapels are interspersed between orchestral masterpieces and resounding choral oratorios in larger churches, town squares, vineyards and an amphitheatre that thrills as the sun sets.
- And for those who love to SING: it’s still not too late to JOIN THE 2024 FESTIVAL CHOIR? Click for information: if you are an experienced and/or good singer, do come and sing the Verdi Requiem with the Musique Cordiale Festival Choir under the baton of Graham Ross this summer, with orchestra and some great soloists in a lovely venue for summer music-making!? Check out the exciting details about our choir concerts and rehearsals in Provence in the hills of the Pays de Fayence and by the Mediterranean in Menton. Consider joining us to sing in a delightful ambience and some special venues this summer!
Making exquisite music together in a convivial atmosphere – share the performance!
Festival flyer 2024 (for details and to book go to the BOX OFFICE)
2024 was our 20th annual Festival !
An international festival of classical, choral & orchestral music
- A variety of lunch-time & evening events
- Memorable Concerts in and around the medieval towns, vineyards and ‘villages perchés’ of the beautiful Pays de Fayence
We held a special FREE launch event & concert in Seillans in April 2024
and we invite our supporters to our NEXT EVENT,
the opening night of the 2024 festival: 30 July 2024
at the Domaine Val d’Iris, Seillans when hope you will enjoy an evening of wine, music and delicious food with us – but also to be generous and understanding on this unique and precious occasion – for which optional prices are higher than for our other events, remembering that this is also a vital fundraising opportunity to help make possible the
festival and concerts which follow!
The 2024 Festival & other recent evnts
Come join our stars as they perform in Verdi’s La Traviata & The Verdi Requiem:
Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Hardwick, soprano
Peter Lidbetter bass
Graham Ross, conductor/direction
Charlotte King mezzo
Aidan Coburn, tenor / direction
with the Musique Cordiale Festival orchestra & choir
Thank you to our English audiences who joined us for our
Autumn concerts in Kent, 9-12 November 2023
3 Autumn CONCERTS in England: Musique- Cordiale in Kent
10 – 12 November 2023
7PM, Saturday 11 November,
Church of Mary of Charity, Faversham, ME13 8GZ, GB
CHORAL CONCERT: Handel & Mozart Oratorios
Musique-Cordiale Festival Choir & Orchestra
conductor Graham Ross
HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 2
MOZART Laudate Dominum from Solemn Vespers
HANDEL Birthday Ode for Queen Anne
MOZART Coronation Mass
Lucy Farrimond soprano, James Hall counter-tenor, Charlotte King alto,
Aidan Coburn tenor, Johnny Herford baritone
7PM, Friday 10 November, Assembly Rooms, Faversham, ME13 8PG:
Concert & presentation
The COUNTER-TENOR & OTHER VOICES
Handel, Senestino, Farinelli & friends: opera for the nobility
James Hall, counter-tenor (with String quartet)
Recital: A HISTORY of ENGLISH SONG THROUGHOUT THE AGES
Lucy Farrimond, soprano & Aidan Coburn, tenor
Rebecca Taylor, piano
11AM, Sun 12 November,
The Assembly Rooms,
Preston Street,
Faversham, ME13 8PG, UK
Support Us
To help us to keep offering a high-quality programme at affordable prices, please do consider supporting us, for example, by becoming a Member, Friend or Donor of Musique Cordiale or by offering in-kind help as a volunteer or artist host.
Soutenez-nous
Pour nous aider à continuer d’offrir un programme de haute qualité à des prix abordables, pensez à nous soutenir, par exemple en devenant membre, ami ou donateur de Musique Cordiale ou en offrant une aide en nature en tant que bénévole ou artiste hôte.
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