Programme & Tickets: BOX OFFICE 2025

"Energy, Virtuosity & Beauty": Bach, Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi

MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE

Soloists from the Musique-Cordiale Festival Orchestra

PERFORMERS:
Anna Tulchinskaya & Oliver Cave, violins
Baroque Orchestra of Musique-Cordiale

"Viola da Gamba & Song": works of Bach & ancient music: Chapelle de Pénitents, CALLIAN, 7PM 31 July 2025

Songs for the Soul

Songs for countertenor and tenor

With gamba, lute and keyboard

MUSIC of PURCELL, DOWLAND & MONTEVERDI

Aidan Coburn, tenor,
Collin Shay, counter-ténor
Jacob Garside, theobor, viola da gamba
Mark Shepherd, piano

25€ (variable)

PROGRAMME to include -

Purcell

- Music for a While

- Evening Hymn

- Strike the Viol

Dowland

- Flow my Tears

- In Darkness let me Dwell

- Time stands Still

Monteverdi

- Zeffiro Torna

Concert of favourites through the ages - with a light 'dinatoire léger' (wine available too!)

Soloists form the Musique-Cordiale Festival Orchestra

Mozart, Bach, Fauré, Rossini, Pachelbel, Schubert, plus Monti's passionate "Czardas! et Bizet's operatic "Carmen" themes

- Mozart- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Movt 1

- Monti - Czardas

- Bach - Badinerie (No.7) from orchestral suite no.2

- Bach - Air on a G string, from orchestral suite no.3

- Schubert - Trout

- Schubert - Theme and variations from Trout Quintet

- Cesar Franck - of Violin Sonata in A major, Movt 1

- Faure - Elegy

- Pachelbel - Canon

- Rossini – Duet for cello and bass

- Rossini – Cat Duet

PERFORMERS:

Anna Tulchinskaya et Oliver Cave, violons

Rachel Coe, clarinette,
Jamie King, bassoon,
Ruth Harrison, flûte

PICNIC & DRINKS:

Gates open early (from 6:30 PM) : join your friends, bring your own picnics and drinks to enjoy in the adjacent grounds beside the charming old railway station in Seillans

Soloists:

Performance starts soon after 8PM

Rebecca Hardwick, soprano, Hannah Dienes-Williams, mezzo, Collin Shay, counter-tenor, Aidan Coburn, tenor, Patrick Alexander Keefe, Baritone, Rebecca Taylor, piano

An evening of opera favourites from across the repertoire, brought together in this inventive new semi-staged production, first seen here at Musique-Cordiale

arrive from 6:30 when gates open - ‘Glyndebourne in Seillans’- bring your own picnics and pre-performance drinks + there will also be our usual interval with wine and soft drinks served.

To include -

• PUCCINI:
• - O Soave Fanciulla - from La Boheme
• - Nessun Dorma - from Turandot
• - O Mimi tu piu non torni - from La Boheme
• BIZET:
• - Habanera - from Carmen
• - Pearl Fishers’ Duet - from The Pearl Fishers
• MOZART:
• - Ah guarda sorella - from Cosi fan Tutte
• - Soave sia il vento – from Cosi fan Tutte
• - The Count’s Aria – from Marriage of Figaro
• - Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön – from The Magic Flute
• VERDI:
• - Brindisi – from La Traviata
• - Cortigiani – from Rigoletto
• - The Quartet – from Rigoletto
• BRITTEN:
• - Oberon’s Aria – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi & Handel's "Dixit Dominus" + Purcell's "Abdelazar Suite"

- Dixit Dominus is one of Handel's best-loved works, performed over the years by Musique-Cordiale in England and France by choirs of various sizes, including once previously by a choir of soloists conducted by David Bates and by the full Festival Choir in various churches, including in Faversham, Kent. It is a psalm setting by George Frideric Handel. It uses the Latin text of Psalm 110, which begins with the words Dixit Dominus ("The Lord Said"). The work was completed in April 1707 while Handel was living in Italy. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. It was written in the Baroque style of the period and is scored for five vocal soloists (SSATB), five-part chorus, strings and continuo. It is thought that the work was first performed on 16 July 1707 in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto.Our soloists for Dixit Dominus are: Rebecca Hardwick & Hannah Diennes-Williams (soprano), Collin Shay (counter-tenor), Aidan Coburn (tenor) & Patrick Alexander Keefe (baritone).

The concert, features the ever popular Seasons of Vivaldi which we have previously performed in Bagnols-en-Forêt & Fayence in recent years. This time, the violin soloists are Anna Tulshinskaya, who has first played with us in 2024 & Oliver Cave, with us since 2018.

Isla Van Hout, with her silky voice, & Jetse de Jong, exhibiting speed, versatility and talent on the piano, with an exciting pre-dinner 'FREE SAMPLE' of what they will also offer on a big stage the next day in Seillans. Like last year, this FREE JAZZ CONCERT will prove to be an unmissable gem this summer! And these artists were much loved when they last performed at Musique-Cordiale in 2019!

"Serenades of Love" –  to a rising moon in the romantic Fayence amphitheatre: 

Brahms, Elgar, Mendelssohn... and more...

9pm FAYENCE, Theatre de Verdure
The Festival’s big orchestral concert in the stunning outdoor amphitheatre in Fayence

• Mendelssohn – Hebrides overture
• Elgar – Serenade for Strings
• Arias/duets (to include…)
• Puccini - O Mimi tu piu non torni - from La Boheme
• Delibes - Flower Duet - from Lakme
• Handel - Eternal Source of Light Divine
• Flotow – M’Appari – from Martha
• Brahms – Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

PERFORMERS:
Maestro – Graham Ross (direction)
Violin – Anna Tulchinskaya
Cello – James Heathcote
+ our memorable vocal soloists: Rebecca Hardwick & Hannah Diennes-Williams - soprano, Collin Shay - counter-tenor, Aidan Coburn - tenor, Patrick Alexander Keefe, baritone .

Musique-Cordiale Festival Orchestra, direction Graham Ross

Free! Invitation
to an exhibition to celebrate the life and art of Paddy Lovely, celebrated artist who lived in Seillans and who died in the past year.
NO TICKET REQUIRED

Our top of the line young vocal soloists: Rebecca Hardwick, soprano, Hannah Dienes-Williams, mezzo, Collin Shay, counter-tenor, Aidan Coburn, tenor, Patrick Alexander Keefe, Baritone with Rebecca Taylor, piano

An evening of opera favourites from across the repertoire, brought together in this inventive new semi-staged production, first seen  at Musique-Cordiale

To include -

PUCCINI:

- O Soave Fanciulla - from La Boheme

- Nessun Dorma - from Turandot

- O Mimi tu piu non torni - from La Boheme

BIZET:

- Habanera - from Carmen

- Pearl Fishers’ Duet - from The Pearl Fishers

MOZART:

- Ah guarda sorella - from Cosi fan Tutte

- Soave sia il vento – from Cosi fan Tutte

- The Count’s Aria – from Marriage of Figaro

- Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön – from The Magic Flute

VERDI:

- Brindisi – from La Traviata

- Cortigiani – from Rigoletto

- The Quartet – from Rigoletto

BRITTEN:

- Oberon’s Aria – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

We can now confirm the venue in the lovely church in Claviers, Canton of Dracenie, courtesy of M. Le Maire

Initial performance of this resounding oratorio in the 2025 Festival
conductor: Graham Ross

Haydn finished "The Creation" in 1798, nearly seven years after his friend Mozart's death. Considered by many to be one of his masterpieces, this oratorio depicts and celebrates a a widely-believed version of "the creation of the world" as narrated in the Book of Genesis. One of the most famous moments of Haydn's The Creation is when the chorus sings, “and there was light.”

The work is structured in three parts and scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and a symphonic orchestra. In parts I and II, depicting the creation, the soloists represent the archangels Raphael (bass), Uriel (tenor) and Gabriel (soprano). In part III, the bass and soprano represent Adam and Eve.

The first public performance was held in Vienna at the old Burgtheater on 19 March 1799. The oratorio was published with the text in German and English in 1800.

The choir & orchestra last performed this work in German at the 2018 festival: Die Schöpfung. This time it will be sung in English.

There will be one interval (including refreshments) between parts 1 and 2 - and a brief pause between the 2nd & 3rd parts.

PERFORMERS:
Maestro – Graham Ross with our amazing line-up of 2025 vocal soloists:
Soprano – Rebecca Hardwick
Mezzo-Soprano – Hannah Dienes-Williams
Tenor - Aidan Coburn
Baritone – Patrick Alexander Keefe
The Musique Cordiale Festival Choir & Orchestra

There will be another performance of this work at the closing Festival Concert in Seillans on Saturday 9 August.

Isla van Hout is back, accompanied by the amazing jazz and boogie-woogie pianist, Jetse de Jong - by popular request from our audiences in Seillans!

Gates open from 7:30PM: concerts begins 9PM. Bring your drinks and picnic and enjoy time with your friends in the ground before the concert and during the interval. The equivalent event was very popular last year at La Gare (and the performers were brilliant and specially-remembered from their poplar event below the chateau in Le Valat a few years (too long) ago! PROGRAMME to be announced here soon: book early to avoid disappointment! This fabulous duo last performed at Musique-Cordiale in 2019 - to much acclaim!

Delightful 'A Cappella' Choral Concert - "2025: Anniversaries through the Ages" SEILLANS Church, 12h30

o Palestrina - Sicut Cervus
o Blitheman - In Pace
o Gibbons - O Clap Your Hands
o Scarlatti - Exulate Deo
o Coleridge-Taylor - All My Stars Forsake Me
o Bennett - Come Live With Me
o Satie - Gymnopedie No 1

PERFORMERS:

Musique-Cordiale Festival Choir,conductor: Graham Ross
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