Les voyageuses

Nuria Rial / Les Cornets Noirs

Nuria Rial is a soprano singer.

Les illuminations

Stephanie Childress—a revelation at France’s first La Maestra competition for female conductors—returns to the podium of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, this time conducting a Mendelssohn-Fauré-Britten programme.

Les Trois Brigands

Gautier Capuçon et les Capucelli

Gautier Capuçon, a leading figure in the cello world, joins forces with six former laureates of his Classe d’ Excellence, many of whom have become sought-after soloists, together forming a unique ensemble of cellists: the Capucellis.

Les légendes de la musique irlandaise

Icons Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny, who ignited the 1970s Irish music scene with their legendary group Planxty, demonstrate their peerless blend of bouzouki and mandolin, flanked by the finest of the new folk generation.

Les Grands Maîtres

Jörg Widmann’s Con brio pays homage to Beethoven’s luminous and spirited penultimate symphony, which in some ways is a throwback to Mozart, whose Sinfonia Concertante is an ode to wind instruments.

In the snake pit: Les Accents and Thibault Noally

begin to doubt God. In His rage, He sends a plague of snakes. What can help now? Johann Adolf Hasse expresses the whole range of human emotions in his music to Serpentes ignei in deserto: Anger, fear, hope, confidence. The ensemble Les Accents, founded by baroque violinist Thibault Noally, delights audiences with its fresh and unconventional style of music-making, and is regarded as a leading ensemble on the early music scene. The ensemble has rediscovered this striking oratorio by Dresden court conductor Hasse.

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Jacques Demy’s iconic musical drama, starring a rising Catherine Deneuve, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg—Palme d'or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival—dazzles even more thanks to this film-in-concert masterfully interpreted by the Yellow Socks Orchestra.

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Jacques Demy’s iconic musical drama, starring a rising Catherine Deneuve, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg—Palme d'or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival—dazzles even more thanks to this film-in-concert masterfully interpreted by the Yellow Socks Orchestra.

Hathor Consort / Dorothee Mields / Romina Lischka

What traces do wars leave on the music of the time? The Hathor Consort, a viol ensemble of to which harp, organ and cornett are added, joins forces with soprano Dorothee Mields to look for echoes of the Thirty Years’ War in the works of composers who witnessed this catastrophic period in European history. With his »Trostgedichten in Widerwertigkeit deß Kriegs«, the poet Martin Opitz wrote an influential treatise of edification in the midst of this fierce conflict that claimed the lives of around a third of the population. The composers of the age attempted to process the deep trauma of violence, hunger and utter defencelessness through their music. This programme brings together four musical witnesses of the time:Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Andreas Hammerschmidt and Heinrich Albert. The acclaimed Hathor Consort focuses mainly on Renaissance and Baroque music, but it regularly combines this with music from other cultures as well as with contemporary works. Dorothee Mields likewise focuses entirely on Early Music, and her clear and intimate soprano is regarded as one of today’s top voices in the field of historic performing practice.