3 concerts d'été au château de Bournazel

Tuesday, August 4 – 20 p.m.

French and Italian Renaissance music for flute ensemble

The Consort of Passage

Adèle Huber, Emma Crumpton, Pauline Hervouet, Armance Merle (recorders)

The recorder is one of the oldest and most widespread instruments on the planet. From the Renaissance onwards, it has been used in ensembles (or consorts), from bass to soprano, to perform adaptations of famous songs, dances, or sophisticated counterpoint.

Composed of very young musicians trained at the Lyon Conservatory, the Consort de Passage offers you a fleeting journey through the intertwining voices of the recorder family, by turns poetic and virtuosic. Featuring Cipriano de Rore, Claude Gervaise, Clément Janequin, and Carlo Gesualdo.

Wednesday, August 5 – 20 p.m.

Plucked and struck strings

Olga Pashchenko, harpsichord & piano

Born in Moscow in 1986, Olga Pashchenko is a multi-talented artist who excels equally on the organ and harpsichord as on the piano. Based in the Netherlands, she has been a professor of early music piano at the Amsterdam Conservatory since 2017.

For her new concert in Bournazel, she has composed a two-part program, moving from the historic harpsichord by Claude Labrèche (1699) to the modern Steingraeber piano, from Baroque music to the Romantic repertoire, in a display of virtuosity. With her, even the most difficult music always seems simple and effortless. The mark of true greatness…

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Suite in D minor/major
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite in G major
Clara Schumann: Three romances op. 11
György Ligeti: Musica ricercata
Frédéric Chopin: Andante spianato and great Polish brilliant op. 22

Thursday August 6 – 20 p.m.

Inverted Muses

Camille Poul (soprano) & Maude Gratton (Labrèche harpsichords 1699 and Humeau 2014)

A unique journey through the vocal and harpsichord works of 17th and 18th-century women composers. By approaching the creative force of these female artists and immersing ourselves in their works, we discover their intimate thoughts, their rebellions, their joys—what they dare not say aloud, yet what they cry out. We must be awestruck by the struggles of these women: claiming the freedom not to be a muse, an object, to choose their own destiny, their loves, their status, all while coping with what cannot be changed.

Airs and harpsichord pieces by Julie Pinel, Melle La Menetou, Mademoiselle Sicard, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Mme Papavoine, Elisabeth Louise Demers, Antonia Bembo, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini…

Trained at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, Camille Poul is equally at ease in the baroque repertoire as in the lyrical repertoire, from Monteverdi to Debussy.

Harpsichordist, pianist and organist, Maude Gratton is a concert performer, ensemble leader and organ professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris.