Concerts and Music
Haut Allier - more than just a music festival
The High
Allier heritage area
The hills and valleys around Brioude and Langeac
The hills and valleys around Brioude and Langeac
A
heritage area in every sense -
history, culture and
environment
Programme July
Thursdays in Brioude : evening street market and entertainment
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Archives: See pevious years programmes for the Haut Allier.
Musiciens : pour participer
- Thursday 10 July 19h. Langeac Ile d'Amour. - Orchestre sous Influences Antoine Brun - Création "Friday", Brahms: Symphonie No. 1 - Op 68. Entrance . 20€ Concert organised by le Collectif Orchestral symphonique de Proximité
- Friday 11 July 21h Brioude Basilique Saint Julien - Ensemble instrumental des Volcans - 24 oeuvres d'Ennio Morricone - Entrance . 25€ or concessions. Concert organised by les Amis de la Basilique
- Friday 11 July 19h. Langeac Ile d'Amour. Brahms. Quintette avec clarinette, op. 115.. Concert organised by le Collectif Orchestral symphonique de Proximité
- Saturday 12 July 19h. Langeac Ile d'Amour. - Orchestre sous Influences avec Guilhem Fabre, piano. Schumann Concerto pour piano Op. 54 Entrance 20€ Concert organised by le Collectif Orchestral symphonique de Proximité
- Sunday 13 July 18h Saint Didier sur Doulon Eglise - Duo La Colombe et le Lys Harpe et Mezzo soprano. Antony Castin and Ségolène Bolard . Thème l'Eau
- Tuesday 15 July 20h30 Chavaniac Lafayette Chateau - Concert de préouverture du Festival de guitare de Chanteuges - Gwen Cahue , guitar and Baptiste Bailly, piano. Entrance: 12€.
- Tuesday 15 July 18h30 Lavaudieu Eglise - Quatuor Nemossos (cello and violin) – Programme: Verbunkos (Hungarian music). Entrance: 10€.
- Wednesday 16 July 20h30 - Chanteuges Abbaye - Festival de guitare de Chanteuges - Concert d'ouverture. Programme Piazzola, avec Gaëlle Solal and Jérémy Vannereau, guitar and bandoneon 15 €
- Thursday 17 July Chanteuges - Festival de guitare de Chanteuges - 17h00 - Concert chapelle : Duo Manolo et Justin, 20h30 - Concert église : Baroque Female Tarantula Festival pass 85 €,or concert église 15 €, concert chapelle 8€.
- Friday 18 July Chanteuges - Festival de guitare de Chanteuges - 17h00 - Concert Chapelle : Florian Colombet. 20h30 - Concert église : Duo Christina Azuma-Paulo Bellinati Festival pass 85 €, or concert église 15 €, concert chapelle 8€.
- Saturday 19 July Chanteuges Abbaye - Festival de guitare de Chanteuges - 18h00 - Concert 18h00 - Daniyah guitar duo 20h30 - Concert église : Trio Joscho Stephan du swing manouche au latin, au classique et au rock - Entrance 15 €
- Sunday 20 July 18h Saint Didier sur Doulon Eglise - Trio des Confluences - trio à bois. Sur un air d’opéra Clarinettes, flute traversière, cor anglais, hautbois, Tarogato - Free entrance.
- Wednesday 23 July 20h30 Chilhac – Eglise - Concert du Duo Sostenuto flûte et guitare. Soirée Sans-Souci - Musique à la Cour de Frédéric le Grand . Bach, Quantz et leurs contemporains. Concert organised by En vacances à Chilhac
- Friday 25 July 21h Brioude – Basilique Saint Julien - Auvergne-RhôneAlpes National Orchestra - Programme Mendelssohn, Britten, Tchaikowski. Entrance 30€, or concessions. Concert organised by les Amis de la Basilique
- Sunday 27 July 18h Chavaniac-Lafayette – Château - Circé Santander, piano - music and recitation. Music from Lafayette's triumphal tour of the USA - Waltzes, cotillons, quickstep, marches. Entrance 15€. Concert organised by le Club Lafayette
- Thursday 31 July 20h30 Saint Ilpize – Eglise - Candlelight concert - The Beech Duo (London), Guitar and violin - Free entrance-. Works by Sarasate, Paganini, Vachez and others. Concert organised by les Amis de Saint Ilpize
Thursdays in Brioude : evening street market and entertainment
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Archives: See pevious years programmes for the Haut Allier.
Musiciens : pour participer
Programme
August - September
For concerts that are part of the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, advance booking is recommended, and may be essential.
For full details about booking, check out the website or the telephone number indicated for the organiser. ► Follow the "Info" links for each concert, or the details indicated in the Info section below.
- Sunday 3 August 18h Saint Didier sur Doulon Eglise - Ensemble Orfeo2 from Cracow. Ave Maria and airs d’opéra. Mariola Siepak-Drobna – soprano, Bogumila Gizbert-Studnicka clavecin . Free entrance
- Monday 4 August 20h30 Chilhac Eglise - Concert with la Petite Harmonie de Poche. Programme le Carnaval des animaux de Saint-Saëns, le Maître des esprits de Weber, and Ma mère l'oye de Ravel. Free entrance
- Thursday 7 August 20h Chanteuges – Abbaye - Les Ames romantiques - Chrystel Saussac and Patrick Gabard - Brahms (Sonata for cello and piano op 38), Clara Schumann (3 romanes op22 for cello and piano), Le Beau (Sonata in D major op 17 ).- Tarif 20€ - Concert du festival classique "Les Musicales du Haut Allier"
- Thursday 7 August 20h30 Saint Ilpize – Chapelle du château - Concert "Waiting for Roger" with Cie La Fauvelle, from Limoges.. organised by the Commune de Saint Ilpize. Entrance 10€, tarif réduit 5€
- Friday 8 August 20h Chanteuges – Abbaye - « Ravel 150 » Programme pour piano à quatre mains with Aliénor Lamarca and Niels Armand-Hasselweiler - Ravel - Francis Poulenc - Claude Debussy - César Franck . Entrance: 20€ / Tarif réduit: 15€ Concert du festival classique "Les Musicales du Haut Allier"
- Friday 8 August 18h30 Brioude Manoé Grandvuinet, young viloin prodigy, and Antony Castin, harp. Entrance 20€, or concessions. Concert organised by les Amis de la Basilique
- Saturday 9 August 17h Langeac – Monastère Ste. Catherine - String sextet with Victor Andrey, Rebecca Normand-Condat, Lisanne Schick, Pablo Contreras, Anna de Belsunce and Adélie Seignet-Bacquet - Richard Strauss (ouverture de Capriccio) / Borodine (Sextuor in D minor) / Tchaikovsky (Souvenir de Florence) - Entrance 20€, or concessions. Concert du festival classique "Les Musicales du Haut Allier"
- Sunday 10 August 18h30 Blesle Chapelle de la Chaigne Ah Laissez-moi rêver - A programme of baroque music - Lambert, Boesset, Charpentier - Aniella Zins soprano, Florence Aoustand traverso, Parsival Castro théorbe. Entrance 15€. organisés par l'AMBAC
- Sunday 10 August 18h Saint Didier sur Doulon Eglise - Concert Natacha Triadou violiniste virtuose. Les trésors du violin virtuose. Bach, Sarasate, Ernst, Paganini. Entrance libre
- Mardi 12 August 18h30 Léotoing - Eglise Purcell and English baroque music - Isablle de Saint-Yves viole de gamba, Romain Falik théorbe, Sarah Lefeuvre soprano, with violette Wanty and Aurélien Oudot. Entrance 15€. organisés par l'AMBAC
- Thursday 14 August 20h30 Saint Ilpize – Eglise- Concert Liam Morrissey with le trio Skoht. organised by la commune de Saint Ilpize. Entrance 10€, tarif réduit 5€.
- Wednesday 20 August 20h30 Auzon – Collégiale St. Laurent - Benjamin Bagby (voice), Carjez Gerretsen (clarinette), Musiques médiévales and résonances contemporaines.. Entrance 25 € Festival Coffret d'Auzon
- Thursday 21 August 20h30 Auzon – Collégiale St. Laurent - The string sextet of the Lyon conservatoire, Programme Tchaïkovski, Britten, Grieg... Entrance 15 € Festival Coffret d'Auzon
- Thursday 21 August 20h30 Saint Ilpize – Eglise - Duo Niseïs. Entrance 10€, tarif réduit 5€.
- Friday 22 August 20h30 Auzon – Collégiale St. Laurent - Jac Berrocal, Vincent Epplay, Le Moyen-Age vu par l'avant-garde musicale/ déambulation Banda de Marcoussi. Entrance 15 € Festival Coffret d'Auzon
- Friday 22 August - 21h Lavaudieu – Eglise La Roue harmonique with Grain de son (duo vielle and euphone) - Pièces classiques and modernes
- Sunday 24 August 18h Saint Didier sur Doulon Eglise - Concert Fiori Musicali Flemish Renaissance ensemble, with historic instruments. "Musique pour les vallées and les montagnes". Entrance libre.
- Sunday 24 August 21h Lavaudieu – Eglise Saint André - -Concert avec l'ensemble Thédora - Cantates sacrées allemandes and leçons de ténèbres françaises à l’aube du XVIIIe siècle. Tarifs de 11€ à 53 €. Concert délocalisé du Festival de La Chaise Dieu
- Wednesday 27 August 18h Lavoûte-Chilhac – Eglise Sainte Croix (abbaye) - Concert Génération Chaise-Dieu - Accès libre. Concert délocalisé du Festival de La Chaise Dieu
- Thursday 28 August 18h Lavaudieu – Eglise Saint André - -Concert Génération Chaise-Dieu - Free entrance. Concert délocalisé du Festival de La Chaise Dieu
- Friday 29 August 18h Brioude Basilique Saint Julien - Le Coeur and la Raison - avec l’ensemble La Néréïde - concert lyrique musiques du début du XVIIIe siècle. Tarifs de 14€ à 65€ - Concert délocalisé du Festival de La Chaise Dieu
- Saturday 13 septembre 18h Lavaudieu – Eglise Saint André - -Marion Sicouly, harp - A musical journey through the centuries - Pachelbel, Bach, Fauré, Satie
Do I need to book in advance ?
For most concerts, advanced booking is not
necessary.
Nevertheless, for concerts organised by Les Escales brivadoises,
by the Amis de la
Basilique, by the Rencontres
musicales de Léotoing, by the Amis de Lavaudieu,
and by the Chanteuges
Classical guitar festival,
and for some other concerts, advance booking (by phone, online, or at
points of sale) may be recommended and ensure a better seat.For concerts that are part of the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, advance booking is recommended, and may be essential.
For full details about booking, check out the website or the telephone number indicated for the organiser. ► Follow the "Info" links for each concert, or the details indicated in the Info section below.
- Les Amis de la Basilique
Saint Julien de
Brioude
contact: 07 86 61 39 71 at the Brioude Tourist Office in the week preceding a concert . Website . - Rencontres musicales de Léotoing Website Book through the website.
- Les Escales Brivadoises Ticketing online https://www.escalesbrivadoises.fr or in the Tourist office during the week preceding the concert.
- Saint Didier sur Doulon. Concerts organised by Saint Didier Mémoire: 0471 76 38 97 . Website email
- Amis de Lavaudieu: contact / tickets at the local tourism info bureau. 04.71.76.46.00 webssite.; Or by email
- Festival de la Chaise Dieu contact : 0471 000 116 reservation@chaise-dieu.com website
- Chanteuges :
Chanteuges International classical guitar festival Website
06.75.11.59.66 or
partenariatrecital@gmail.com
Tarif "pass" pour toul les concerts du Festival - Baroque en Val d'Allier 04 71 74 06 91or baroque.val.allier "at" hotmail.fr
- Concerts in Auzon
- Association
« Auzon Toujours »
Tél : 04.71.76.18.11 - Mairie de Langeac - service culturel. 04 71 77 28 06
- Mairie de St. Ilpize - Reservations 0952 66 22 66 in the week before a concert.
- Brioude-South-Auvergne Tourist information office Website
The high valley of the Allier heritage area stretches from Auzon in the north to Pébrac in the south, and includes the communes (rural areas) of Auzon, Bournoncle St. Pierre, Brioude, Vieille Brioude, Saint Ilpize, Villeneuve d'Allier, Blassac, Lavoûte Chilhac, Chilhac, Aubazat, Langeac, Chanteuges, Saint Arcons, Prades, and more. It includes the valleys of the Allier and its tributaries, the Allagnon, Senouire and Doulon, and the hills between.
Association Musique en la
Vallée - Cultural association - Mairie de
Saint Ilpize - 43380 -
Get in touch - admin at music-valley.org
Get in touch - admin at music-valley.org
Photo top
of page. - Benjamin Braude with the Quatuor
Tejo, award-winning sting quartet from
Portugal, in St. Julians's Basilica, Brioude, 2022
Music in the Auvergne -
"Music-valley"
is the high valley of the river Allier, covering the rural district
areas of Brioude and
Langeac, in the department of Haute Loire, Auvergne,
southern
France.
The music
season
in the valley is a relaxed affair, and unique in rural France by its
extent and its duration. The venues are mostly small, the
performers good - often top quality, but the prices reasonable. Some
concerts are
"give what you want", some are free, most are less than 20 Euros. Only
the full concerts in the basilica at Brioude and those organised by the
La Chaise Dieu music festival are a bit more. Unlike any other summer
music programme in rural France (and there are plenty of them), this is
a fringe without a festival, two months of music for
pleasure, organised by musicians themselves, volunteers, villages and
cultural associations.Musique
en la Vallée association invites you to discover our
sponsors
La Mirandelle -
Salon de thé
Tearoom & café
Beside the Basilica
Brioude
04 71 74 90 01
Couleurs Dentelle
Lace-making studio, gallery and shop
1 rue Notre Dame Brioude.
www.couleurs-dentelle.com
Lace-making studio, gallery and shop
1 rue Notre Dame Brioude.
www.couleurs-dentelle.com
Ets. Oléon
Cycles, motos, bricolage.
Cycles & D-I-Y store
Rue Croix st Isidore Brioude.
Website
Escandilha
Artisans créateurs - oeuveres d'art, accessoires, habillement
Local arts and crafts
19 r Sébastopol
Brioude
On Facebook
Artisans créateurs - oeuveres d'art, accessoires, habillement
Local arts and crafts
19 r Sébastopol
Brioude
On Facebook
Ets. PIC
Household goods and TV
Hifi - satellite -TV
kitchen equipment
Brioude
Website
Ets Cornaire
6 rue des Ecoles, chappes,43390 Auzon
Central heating systems, plumbing experts, solar panels, heat pumps - systems renovations.
Website
Librairie Vercingetorix
Livres, beaux arts, fournitures de bureau.
Bookshop, fine arts, postcards
14 Bd Vercingetorix
Brioude
On Facebook
Bookshop, fine arts, postcards
14 Bd Vercingetorix
Brioude
On Facebook
Le Saint Julien
Restaurant - Pizzeria.
A côté de la Basilique, Brioude.
Website
And more music ....
JAZZ - FOLK - BLUES and more
The music in Haut Allier is not all classical
Discover other musical activities put on by local tourist offices and villages.
The Brioude Tourist Office organises musical pic-nics on Thursday evenings from 11thth July to 20thth August, beside the campsite at la Bageasse. The music's free - bring your own pic-nic.
Blesle comes to life with its Musical aperitifs, from 11th to 13thth August