Les Heures Musicales de Pontigny
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Edition 2025 — Heures Musicales de Pontigny
The 2025 season of Les Heures Musicales de Pontigny unfolded from May to August with five concerts in the Cistercian abbey church. It notably featured violinist Paul Parsons and voices for a journey through English music from the Renaissance to the Baroque (May 25th), an organ recital dedicated to French music of the 17th and 18th centuries by Jean-Pierre Lecaudey (July 20th), a classical and Iberian guitar concert by Robin Maxime (August 11th), and the Summer Pastorale for four-hand organ with Marie-Ange Leurent and Éric Lebrun (August 15th), before a final organ recital with Martin Gester (August 31st).
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2025 Season — From the Renaissance to the Baroque
The 2025 edition of Les Heures Musicales de Pontigny offered a program of great stylistic richness, opening the season on the Pentecost weekend and continuing until the end of summer within the walls of the Cistercian abbey church.
Pentecost Concert — May 25, 2025
The Pentecost concert, a ritual highlight of the festival for over thirty years, opened the season with a program dedicated to English music from the Renaissance to the Baroque under the direction of Paul Parsons: works by Taverner, Tallis, Byrd, Tomkins, Purcell, Handel, and Wesley, performed by voices and organ.
Organ Concert — July 20, 2025
Organist Jean-Pierre Lecaudey, originally from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, offered a "Journey through French music of the 17th and 18th centuries," featuring works by Sweelinck, Boyvin, Clérambault, J.S. Bach, F. Couperin, and J.-M. Beauvarlet-Charpentier.
Guitar Concert — August 11, 2025
Virtuoso guitarist Robin Maxime led the audience through classical, Spanish, and South American masterpieces in a recital combining sensitivity and virtuosity.
Summer Pastorale — August 15, 2025
A four-hand organ concert for the Assumption Day celebration with Marie-Ange Leurent and Éric Lebrun, featuring a program of baroque music: Buxtehude, Marchand, Lebègue, J.S. Bach, Handel, and Rameau.
Organ Recital — August 31, 2025
Martin Gester closed the season with a musically refined baroque program in the abbey church on a late summer evening.
Programme
2025 Program
- May 25 (Pentecost) — Organ and voices, directed by Paul Parsons: English music from the Renaissance to the Baroque (Taverner, Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, Handel)
- July 20 — Organ: Jean-Pierre Lecaudey — Journey through 17th-18th century French music (Sweelinck, Boyvin, Clérambault, J.S. Bach, F. Couperin)
- August 11 — Classical Guitar: Robin Maxime — Classical, Spanish, and South American masterpieces
- August 15 (Assumption) — 4-hand Organ: Marie-Ange Leurent & Éric Lebrun — Summer Pastorale (Buxtehude, Bach, Rameau)
- August 31 — Organ: Martin Gester — Baroque program
Highlights
2025 Highlights
- Pentecost Concert: a journey through English polyphony from Taverner to Handel
- Jean-Pierre Lecaudey on the organ for a journey through Baroque France
- Summer Pastorale for four hands on Assumption Day
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Abbatiale de Pontigny
5 avenue de l'Abbaye, 89230 Pontigny