Around Lannion. Four concerts for the Lanvellec Early Music Festival

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A reading concert, a Jean-Sébastien Bach day and an English music concert make up the menu for the second weekend of the Lanvellec and Trégor Early Music Festival.

Friday October 11, All the twilights of the world

This is an original event that will appeal to music lovers and literature lovers alike. This reading concert brings together the writer Pascal Quignard and the harpsichordist Pierre Gallon.

The title of the evening obviously refers to the novel Every morning in the worldpublished in 1991 and adapted for the cinema by Alain Corneau, who introduced Pascal Quignard to a wide audience. The founder of the Versailles Opera and Baroque Theater Festival has since obtained the Goncourt prize in 2002 with Wandering Shadows.

As a soloist or with the biggest names in early music, Pierre Gallon is at ease in all repertoires, from the Renaissance to contemporary.

With their “recital”, the duo offers their shared perspectives on the musical Paris of the time of the Fronde, between echoes of salons and reflections on a world in its twilight. As for the program, shush! it will be revealed as the concert progresses, so that the public can better get carried away.

At 8:30 p.m., Théâtre du Champ au Roy, Guingamp. Prices: full €25, subscribers €22, reduced €20, special €10. Free – under 16 years old.

Saturday 12, Johann Sebastian Bach Day

Two talented instrumentalists, the music of JS Bach, an unusual schedule: we will happily travel to the Pink Granite Coast this October 12.

With the Gambist Agnès Boissonnot-Guilbault and the harpsichordist Nora Dargazanli have, for their first duo disc (Bathos Records), published in 2023 French Suites by Bach for solo harpsichord, which they transcribed for their instruments. The writing of these pieces, testifying to a rather gallant spirit, partly inspired by the style of French harpsichordists, favors cantabile over virtuosity, elegance over exuberance. Subtly restoring the spirit of the dances of the time.

The two musicians notably co-founded the bass ensemble Cet Étrange Éclat which, in 2019, won second prize in the Val de Loire competition chaired by William Christie.

At 11 a.m., Trégastel church. Prices: full €22, subscribers €19, reduced €17, special €10. Free – under 16 years old.

The Bach day continues in the evening with Sonatas & partitas for solo violin.

Leading violinist of the current baroque scene, Leila Schayegh leads an intense activity as a soloist, chamber musician & teacher. His recording of the Holy Grail of any violinist, the Sonatas & partitas for solo violin by Bach, was praised by critics.

Let’s give the floor to the musician: These works “are for me the center of a violinist’s existence, even more so in the case of a Baroque violinist. As Bach writes “sei solo”, we are alone with our instrument. When we play the Sonatas & Partitas, we feel naked on stage, exposed, and at the same time in a very intimate atmosphere.”

At 8:30 p.m., Pleumeur-Bodou church. Prices: full €22, subscribers €19, reduced €17, special €10. Free – under 16 years old.

Dimanche 13, A Byrd Celebration

Close to your ear, here is an ensemble name that raises questions. Created in 2017, during the early music festival in Timisoara, Romania, by Robin Pharo, through its strangeness and poetry it evokes the singular identity of a young ensemble who wishes to defend a niche repertoire in order to inspire and share the curiosity of unusual ancient jewels.

If William Byrd is a composer known to most people, certain works in this program, both secular and sacred, are much less known, performed by four voices and five instrumentalists. It is structured around his 4-voice mass and his works for viola da gamba consort.

“We were also keen to present extracts of his work for the virginal, a very popular instrument in 16th century England.^e century and a true laboratory of the secular work of William Byrd, of which we will also arrange certain pieces for consort of viols da gamba. »

At 3 p.m., Plouaret church. Prices: full €35, subscribers €32, reduced €30, special €10. Free – under 16 years old.

Ticket office Monday to Friday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., on 02 96 35 13 72 (payment by credit card), by email: [email protected] Online on the website: www.festival-lanvellec.fr

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