Ensemble Amarine Belladiva’s concert was an absolute joy: my preferred event of L’Itinéraire

FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [7]: L’Itinéraire [5]: Les Délices de l’Âme: Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badárová [soprano], Michaela Ambrosi [transverse flute], Barbara Maria Willi [harpsichord]). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 2.8.2025. (CC)

Zuzana Badárová (soprano)

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L’Itinéraire explores music by Hellendaal, Ruloffs, Focking and de Fesch from Dutch Baroque

FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [6]: L’Itinéraire [4] – Dutch Baroque plays Dutch Baroque: Dutch Baroque (Ivan Iliev [violin], Beniamino Paganini [transverse flute], Anne-Linde Visser [cello], Gerard de Wit [organ/harpsichord/director]). Église Saint-Pierre d’Edon, France, 2.8.2025. (CC)

Gerard de Wit playing during an earlier concert

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Capella de la Torre show spirit in their high-voltage (if quite tiring) Les Éléments in Périgord

FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [2]: La Roche Baroque [2] – Les Éléments: Capella de la Torre. Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 1.8.2025. (CC)

Capella de la Torre at Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt

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A very musical day at Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 begins in a perfect way with La Risonanza

FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [2]: La Roche Baroque [1] – Handel and his Contemporaries: La Risonanza. Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 1.8.2025. (CC)

La Risonanza at the Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt

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A great start to Itinéraire Baroque 2025 from A Nocte Temporis

FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [1]: Opening Concert, Pyrame et Thisbé: A Nocte Temporis, Reinoud Van Mechelen (high tenor/director). Église Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité, Périgord, France, 31.7.2025. (CC)

Reinoud Van Mechelen (high tenor/director)

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SCO’s energising Beethoven, fun Rameau but the Saint-Saëns and Capperauld stood out at the Proms

United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [5] – Beethoven’s Fifth: Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor/drum). Royal Albert Hall, London, 25.7.2025. (CC)

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts pianist Alexandre Kantorow and the SCO © BBC/Mark Allan

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