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Music in Auvergne, France :
The
high
valley of the Allier.
between Brioude and Langeac.
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A Fringe without a Festival -
Concerts and music - 2011
50
concerts + other musical events
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"Music-valley"
is the High valley of the river Allier, from the district of Brioude to
the district of
Langeac, in the department of Haute Loire, Auvergne, southern
France.
The music season
in the valley is a relaxed affair; the venues are mostly small, the
performers good - often top quality, but the prices reasonable - some
"give what you want", many less than 10 Euros, some a bit more. Only
the full concerts in the basilica at Brioude are a bit higher (28 Euros
in 2010). This is a fringe without a festival, a summer of music for
pleasure, organised by musicians and cultural associations.
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Programme
of concerts 2011:
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This programme is ongoing;
more events will be added as and when the concert organisers
provide them
Tickets:
Except for concerts in Brioude and Lavaudieu (see "Concert organisers"
below) , tickets - when required - are not usually
sold in
advance, but are available at the door. Many of the concerts
are
free. Donations welcome.
Archives:
Full
programme from 2010
Photo:
The
Benjamin Braude quartet
in concert at Lempdes, 2010
with Caroline Poncelet, second violin, Denis Cruysmans viola, et Gabriel Arias Luna, 'cello . |
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in the Valley.... |
Concerts in April May June and
July
2011
Sunday
27 March 17h
Mairie de Langeac
Concert with the Baroque en Val d'Allier ensemble
Michal Okon and Anda Péléka soprani
Maryvonne Gautier recorder
Andrée
Thomas violin, Murielle Terme cello, Jacqueline Vallin harpsichord.
From Carissimi and Monteverdi to Corette and Jean Chrétien
Bach,
A very varied programme of baroque music.
Saturday 16th April
8.30
pm Abbaye de Lavoûte Chilhac
Concert by L’Avant Garde
langeadoise - Brass band with woodwind. (Dress rehearsal for their
appearance in Prague)
Free
Sunday 15th May
4 pm Basilique St Julien,
Brioude
The Minsk male
voice choir (8 singers ) "VOX Belarus"
Concert in favour of the victims of Chernobyl.
Entrance 12 €
Thursday 26th May
Hotel Saint Roch,
Salzuit
Capital Duo, New York - Hillary and Duncan Cumming, violin and piano,
Schubert: Sonatina in D Major (D 384), Beethoven: Sonata No 1
(Op 12 No 1), Dvorak: Sonatina Op 100
Friday 27h May Abbaye de
Lavoûte Chilhac
Capital Duo, New York - Hillary and Duncan Cumming, violin and piano,
Schubert: Sonatina in D Major (D 384), Beethoven: Sonata No 1
(Op 12 No 1), Dvorak: Sonatina Op 100
Saturday
28th May 6 pm
Abbaye de
Lavoûte Chilhac
Concert: Lavoute Chilhac children's choir, and the Chants Do
Ré singers (Lavoûte Chilhac).
Free
Friday
10th June 7.30 pm
Collégiale
Saint Laurent, Auzon
Choral concert - chorale Chant'Aiguilhe - Le Puy
Direction Gérard ROCHE : organ Pierre ASTOR (Organist at the
cathedral of Saint Etienne).
Thursday
16th June 8.30 pm Basilique St. Julien,
Brioude
Songs and texts from the Middle Ages XIth - XIIIth centuries.
Luc Arbogast - countertenor
Free
Saturday
18th June 8.30 pm Brioude
- Eglise la Borie d'Arles
Choral concert
The Haut Allier choir. Tickets 10€ at the door.
Sunday
19th june 11.30
am Eglise
de Saint-Cirgues
Choral concert: the
Chants Do Ré singers.
Free
Monday
20th June, 8.30 pm, - église de
Paulhaguet
Concert
choral Bluegrass - Country - Gospel: The Living
Hope Band, Kentucky
USA. Including such classics as “Oh, happy day
!” and “Amazing grace”.
Free.
Wednesday
22nd June, 8.30 pm, - Abbaye de
Lavoûte Chilhac
Concert
choral Bluegrass - Country - Gospel: The Living
Hope Band, Kentucky
USA. Including such classics as “Oh, happy day
!” and “Amazing grace”.
Free
Wednesday
22nd June, 9 pm, - Eglise de Venteuges
Choral concert with De si de la et Chanterelle.
Free.
Saturday
25th June 5 pm Monastère
Sainte Catherine de Sienne
Langeac
Choral concert- Atelier des Arts du Puy en Velay
Programme: Gounod, Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and others
Free.
Concerts
in July
Monday
4th July at 9 pm. –
Lavaudieu -Cloître
Dido and Aeneas - Opéra by Henry Purcell
Petit Choeur de Musicologie de St Étienne and the Ensemble
Turina.
Preceded by les sept chansons de Poulenc
with the After Eight octet. Tarif: 25 € Reduced rate
18€
Organised by Vallis Dei - les Amis de Lavaudieu
Thursday
7th July at 9pm Château
de Chavaniac Lafayette
Ensemble
Opalescences, Paris, with Saskia Salembier "A journey through Baroque
Europe" programme : Charpentier, Couperin, Scarlatti, Rameau, Purcell,
Marin Marais. Tickets at the door: 15 Euros
Sunday
10th July, 4 pm Basilique
St Julien, Brioude
Canto Général Auvergne choir - Clermont Ferrand
Concert of negro spirituals
Directed by Anne-Marie Lerche - Piano Hiroko Maruyama
Also Hispanic songs by the Canto Chile male voice ensemble.
Tickets: 10 Euros - available at the door.
Tuesday
12th July at 9pm Basilique
Saint Julien, Brioude
Ensemble
Opalescences, Paris, with Saskia Salembier "A journey through Baroque
Europe" programme : Charpentier, Couperin, Scarlatti, Rameau, Purcell,
Marin Marais. Tickets at the door: 15
Euros
Saturday
16th July; 9 pm
Chapelle de Tapon, Saint Ilpize
Piano recital - Roland Cuer
Programme : Beethoven - Moonlight sonata, études symphoniques
Schubert, 3 Impromptus, Chopin, waltzes or nocturnes, and Liszt.
Organised by the Mairie de Saint Ilpize
Thursday
21st July ; 9 pm
Collégiale Saint Laurent - Auzon
Programme of chamber music
Beethoven Quatuor n°6 - Opus 18, Vivaldi The Four
Seasonss
Adélys string quartet
7th Festival Musique sur un Plateau
Friday
22nd July - 8.30 pm Chapel, Tapon,
(Saint Ilpize)
The Martineau Singers - Dorking Angleterre
Programme of choral music - Baroque to 20th century
Friday 22nd July 9 p.m.
église d’Espalem
Programme: Beethoven - Quatuor
for strings no 15 op 132 in A minor
Direction Benjamin
Braude
Rencontres musicales de Léotoing, chamber music
Saturday
23rd
July, Abbey
of Lavoûte Chilhac 8.30
p.m.sharp.
Pan pipes, harp and organ.
Michel
Tirabosco, (international soloist) panpipes, Nathalie
Chatelain (Orchestre de Suisse Romande )
harp, - Jean-Marie
Reboul (Pianist at the
Conservatoire de Paris ) organ. Entrance free
Saturday
23rd
July, Halle aux Grains,
Brioude, 9 pm
Baermann Sextet - "From Vivarais to Lithuania"
Musical tales.
Clarinet sextet. - works by Haendel, Khatchaturian, Mozart,
Ellington, Mendelssohn, Piazzolla .
7th Festival Musique sur un Plateau
Sunday
24th July; 5
p.m.. église de Lempdes
sur Alagnon
Programme, Puccini, Verdi, Hugo Wolf,
Tchaïkowski
Rencontres musicales de Léotoing, chamber music
Direction Benjamin
Braude
Sunday
24th July; 9
p.m.. Collégiale
St Gal, Langeac
Trio
Speranza - piano, guitar and saxophone.
Programme, Music from South America - Villa Lobos, Piazzola,
Domeniconi, Milhaud et Machado. Free .
Wednesday 27th July; 9 pm St Pierre's
Abbey - Blesle
Programme of chamber music for organ and oboe
Couperin, Bellini, Rheinberger, Grieg, Fauré, Dorati.
Oboe: Olivier Rousset, Organ: Marie-Ange Leurent
7th Festival Musique sur un Plateau.
Friday
29th July; 8.30 pm,
Église de Vieille Brioude :
Choral
concert with Les Chœurs du Haut-Allier. A repertoire of
classical
(Rameau, Verdi ...) and sacred (Mozart, Bruckner ...) music,
traditional and contemporary songs. Directed by Mireille
Ménéglier.
Friday
29th July; 9 pm
Château de Chavaniac-Lafayette
Programme of chamber music with the Cassiopée
Quintet
Prokoviev - Peter and the Wolf
Oboe:
Vincent Arnoult, French horn: Pierre Remondiere, Flute: Boris
Grelier, Clarinet: Julien Chabod, Bassoon Guillaume
Bidar
7th Festival Musique sur un Plateau.
Saturday
30th July ; 9 pm
Château de la Chômette, Saint Beauzire
Quatuor Erell, Soprano and actors
"A summer's night" French odes to love
Berlioz, Dorneau, Debussy, Massonneau, Grosset-Grange.
Soprano:
Isabelle Fremau, Oboe: Olivier Rousset, Violin: Florence Rousset,
Viola: Claire Rousset, Cello:
François-Marie Lhuissier
7th Festival Musique sur un Plateau.
Sunday 31st July 3.30 pm ; Eglise de Bournoncle St
Pierre
Italian music from the XVIIIth century. Harpsichord concert.
Pascal Bertry - organist of the great organ of Saint Louis, Vichy.
Sunday
31st July 9 pm
Collégiale
Saint Laurent, Auzon
Musica Graziosa ensemble
with Bogumila Gizbert-Studnicka - harpsichord Thomas Fluor - baritone
Esther Fluor-Baumberger - oboe
Programme : Bach. Purcell. Telemann. Rameau.
Concert in the framework of the XVIth Baroque en Auvergne festival
Entrance: 15 €
Sunday
31st July 9 pm
Eglise de Paulhac, near Brioude
Récital
romantique « Hommage to F.Liszt and F.Chopin » by
Pierre Morabia,
professor at the French National Music Conservatory
Organised by Château de Paulhac
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Concerts
in August September & October 2011
Wednesday
3rd August - Abbaye
d'Auzon
Concert choir and orchestra - Monteverdi, Schutz.
Ensemble
Sagittarius, London, directed by Alan Armstrong.
Friday
5th August 9
pm
Eglise de Paulhaguet
The
Chabounias, from Minsk, with Vladimir Sinkevitch (cellist with
the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) . Programme Beethoven, Mozart,
Rossini,
Tchaikovski, Davydov, Verdi and others
Organised by Art et Mélodie
Friday
5th August - Eglise
de Blasssac
Concert choir and orchestra - Monteverdi, Schutz.
Ensemble
Sagittarius, London, directed by Alan Armstrong.
Saturday
6th August - Chapelle
Saint Roch, Salzuit
Concert choir and orchestra - Monteverdi, Schutz.
Ensemble
Sagittarius, London, directed by Alan Armstrong.
From 7th to 15th August - Abbaye de Chanteuges
Every
afternoon 2 pm - 6 pm, except Sat. 13th August, Music in the cloisters
- Baroque music from Monteverdi to Vivaldi . Concert with the Baroque
en Val d'Allier ensemble.
Sunday
7th August ;
Eglise de Saint Ilpize
Choral concert
Organised by the Friends of Saint Ilpize
Sunday
7th August 9
pm
Collegial church, Langeac
The
Chabounias, from Minsk, with Vladimir Sinkevitch (cellist with
the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) . Programme Beethoven, Mozart,
Rossini,
Tchaikovski, Davydov, Verdi and others
Organised by Art et Mélodie
Tuesday
9th August, 9 pm –
Eglise de Lavaudieu
Piano recital for four hands
Cédric Boyer and Emmanuel Pélaprat
Programme Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Brahms
Entrance : 20€ - Reduced rate : 15€
Wednesday
10th August ; 8.30pm
Eglise
de Blassac,
Choral concert Ensemble Ma Non Troppo, le Puy
Canticles to Mary and sacred music from the Saint Michel Liturgy
Free.
Thursday
11th August ; Chapelle de Tapon, Saint
Ilpize
Concert by Misshaped Pearls , London
Modern baroque music
Friday 12th August 9
pm Abbaye de
Lavoûte Chilhac
Jean
Claude Borelly and his musicians - Music for the trumpet
Réservations
and information phone 0471 74 88 19.
Saturday
13th August 9
pm
Eglise de Vieille Brioude
The
Chabounias, from Minsk, with Vladimir Sinkevitch (cellist with
the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) . Programme Beethoven, Mozart,
Rossini,
Tchaikovski, Davydov, Verdi and others
Organised by Art et Mélodie
Tuesday
16th August, 9 pm Basilique
St Julien, Brioude
Orchestre d'Auvergne, Director Arie van Beek, with Jean Marie
Trotereau, cello.. Programme Vivaldi - concertos for stringss,
Haydn Concerto in B major for cello and orchestra HOBVIIb:1,
Tchaikowski Souvenir of Florence.
Sunday
21st August, 8.30 pm Eglise
de Saint Ilpize
Concert par l'ensemble Baroque en Val d'Allier
Flûtes, hautbois, violon, violoncelle et clavecin, et
sopranos.
Programme: Witt, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Schickhardt, Haendel, Bach etc.
Wednesday
24th August 8.30 pm Basilique
St. Julien, Brioude
Music for choir and orchestra
Misere d'Allegri and motets by Grandi, Trombetti, Corso
with the
A Sei Voci vocal quintet, the Aria Voce vocal octet, and the
Lachrimæ Consort directed by P Le Corf.
Concert under the auspices of
the La Chaise Dieu festival
Thursday
25th August 6 pm Place
aux Herbes
Brioude
Wind quintet - "Le concert
impromptu"
Free concert under
the auspices of the La Chaise Dieu festival
Sunday
28th August, 9 pm -
Collégiale Saint Gal, Langeac
Baroque music - Monteverdi, Carissimi, Sammartini, Vivaldi, Lambert,
Haendel, Bach,
Ensemble Baroque en Val d'Allier, flute, oboe, violin, cello and
harpsichord, with the sopranos Michal
OKON and Anda PELEKA
Free - make a contribution.
Sunday
2nd October 4 pm Abbaye
de Lavoûte Chilhac
Gathering of Auvergne Choirs - Some twenty choirs from the Auvergne
region
Free concert.
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Other
musical activities:
Sunday 3rd July
morning, Lavoûte Chilhac
Traditional Notre Dame Trouvée Procession,.
27th
August 3rd Sept;
Vocal technique workshop with the singer Michal
OKON .
End of workshop concert - Saturday 3rd September at 4 pm in the
Mère Agnès chapel, Langeac.
Organised by Baroque en Val d'Allier
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Concert organisers - further
information:
- Amis de Lavaudieu
04.71.76.46.00 website
- Amis de Léotoing website
- Chatellenie de St Ilpize
- Association Art et
Mélodie
- Association Musik'art
Site
- Baroque en Val d'Allier
06 46 03 69 00 email
baroque.val.allier - at - hotmail.fr
- Château de Paulhac
04 71 50 27 76
- Odyssée musicale en Val
d'Allier Site
- Mairie de St. Ilpize
- Musique sur un Plateau
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