This summer, from 4 to 7 August, come and enjoy the second Puylagarde classical music festival. A rich and varied musical programme awaits you over the four days in the gardens of the Chapelle Notre Dame de Lugan. Monday 4 August: ensemble Barocco tango duo Follia (David Louwerse: cello - Guillaume Hodeau: bandoneon). The two musicians brilliantly take us through the masterpieces of Vivaldi and Bach, where each note is an invitation to explore the contrasts between past and present. Barocco Tango succeeds in bringing together the rigorous, sublime counterpoint of Johann Sebastian Bach and the celebrated tangos of Gardel and Matos Rodríguez, the noble asceticism of Marin Marais and the genuinely lyrical roughness of Astor Piazzolla.
Tuesday 5 August: Q5 Brass Quintet (Catherine Redfern: trumpet - Walter Mena: trumpet - Aurélie Verdon: horn - Yves Laborde: trombone - Jorge Herrera: tuba). This young international ensemble was born in 2019 in Floresti, Romania. Its musicians aim to promote the repertoire and sound of the brass quintet. Their underlying aim is to introduce the brass family to a wider audience and to combine several different styles of music in a single concert to raise awareness of so-called classical music.
Wednesday 6 August: Harp concert (Kathy Sheratt) This young English harpist has taken part in numerous competitions in the UK and Europe. She was recently a finalist in the prestigious UK Harp Competition. An honours undergraduate at Birmingham Royal Conservatoire, she has just completed her Master of Arts at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Music. Her programme this evening is a delicate one, in which the natural elements of the setting of La Chapelle de Lugan blend harmoniously with the notes of our young harpist.
Thursday 7 August: Piano-violin duo (Maxime Zecchini: piano - Isabelle Durin: violin). "Dance on a journey
To speak of dance is to immediately evoke the principle of soul/body duality: even if they coexist, can they nevertheless be reunited? The interplay of inner tension, in which dance is an extension of the most intimate emotions, is what shines through in the music, which echoes these plural movements. Isabelle Durin and Maxime Zecchini will take you on a journey around the world through emblematic works by Granados, Grieg, Prokofiev, Bartok...