Les Heures Musicales de Pontigny
2025
Edition 2025 — Finished
Edition 2025 — Heures Musicales de Pontigny
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
Prices
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