Éva Fogelgesang imagines the sounds of Château du Guildo with medieval and Celtic harps. Her musical tours combine theatre, poetry and an exploration of the castle, with one route for families and another for history enthusiasts. Part of Arsonora, the programme is organised by Fête des Remparts de Dinan and includes a musical interlude between the visits.
Tag: classical-music
Lisztomanias: Franz and George
Under Jean-Yves Clément’s artistic direction, Lisztomanias explores Franz Liszt as a Romantic musician, performer and cultural phenomenon. Recitals, lectures, literary concerts, café-concerts and discovery performances for young virtuosos reveal his work from several angles. Masterclasses in interpretation and improvisation add a transmission strand, connecting established artists with developing musicians. The festival’s dialogue with George Sand is especially resonant in Châteauroux: Liszt was her friend and visited Nohant twice with Marie d’Agoult before carrying his piano career across Europe. Bringing their histories together allows music and literature to illuminate a shared artistic world while rooting an international composer in the cultural landscape of Berry for audiences across Châteauroux’s varied city-centre venues.
Concert Hors les Murs du Nohant Festival
The Nohant Festival Chopin travels beyond its usual walls with a recital designed to bring emerging musicians before new audiences. Young artists share the work developed through the festival’s masterclasses, performances and inclusive outreach. In the rural market hall, the architecture becomes part of the listening experience, placing formal musical training in an open, communal setting. The project extends the festival’s reach without losing the concentration of a recital, allowing talent and repertoire to remain at the center. It also reflects a commitment to audiences who do not ordinarily enter established concert venues, including people with disabilities. By carrying the Nohant name into a village gathering place, the program connects a major Berry music institution with the everyday cultural geography around it.
14th Plouguer Music Season
La saison musicale de Plouguer uses the church acoustic as a meeting place for early music, traditional melody and new instrumental color. Wenceslas Hervieux and Vincent Marin connect bombarde and épinette with Baroque invention, while La Harpaille extends the program through harp quartet textures. The season’s identity rests on dialogue between learned repertoire, Breton-rooted sound and a wider chamber-music imagination.
Musik Europa Breizh in Clohars-Fouesnant: Baroque Showcase
Musik Europa Breizh’s Los pasos perdidos follows the breath of flute traditions across medieval Europe and pre-Columbian America. Pierre Hamon moves among recorders, frestel, double and triple flutes, and instruments made from bone, reed, bamboo and wood, while Ananda Brandão adds percussion and voice. The program treats early sound as a path toward meditation, trance and jubilation within Clohars-Fouesnant’s musical life.
Concert Envoûté in Peillac: Baroque & Folk Blend
Concert Envoûté avec Garenne brings the musicians of Garenne together with visual artists from Minoterie 21, the contemporary art centre in Peillac. Clémence Cognet and Noëlle Nioulou shape a repertoire where Baroque dance melodies meet laments and folk material from the Massif Central. Baroque instruments and artist-built huts give the performance a chamber scale rooted in craft, sound and place.
Organ and Bombard Concerts in Pont-l’Abbé: Summer Series
Les vendredis musicaux de l’été brings two concerts to Pont-l’Abbé. Claude Nadeau and Rémy Kergozien pair organ and bombarde in one programme. Guillaume Gionta and François Castang take part in a narrated concert version of Carnival of the Animals in the other. Les Amis de l’orgue organises the series, with free participation.
Circuit des Orgues in Carhaix: Duo Sirona Concert
Duo Sirona appears at Eglise Saint-Trémeur as part of Central Brittany’s circuit devoted to six contrasting church organs. Opera singer Erato Strongylou and organist Estelle Walter shape The Wheel of the Year from classical music and popular Celtic repertoire. A presentation of the instrument places its sound, period and construction beside the vocal programme in Carhaix-Plouguer.
Nohant Festival Chopin Concert in Mézières-en-Brenne: Piano
Pianist Dmytro Semykras performs at the collegiate church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Mézières-en-Brenne. His recital includes Scarlatti, Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Scriabin. The concert belongs to the Nohant Festival Chopin’s Hors les murs programme, which takes young pianists into venues beyond the festival’s home at Nohant.
Festival de Chambord 2026
The Festival de Chambord brings a programme of classical and contemporary music to the Château de Chambord. Repertoire from different periods shares the bill in the festival’s fifteenth edition. The château provides the concert setting, linking live performance with one of the Loire Valley’s major architectural sites.