Grandes Heures de Cluny 2018

2017 - Cloître

Again, this year Les Grandes Heures de Cluny, a classical music festival will take place during the summer months, at various locations in Cluny. Below a concise overview of the various concerts in this series. Just like previous years we hope to be able to attend all concerts in this excellent series.

Saturday 16 June 2018 – 18h00 - Presentation of the festival by Guy Touvron, with musical accompaniment by pianist Marie-Ange Nguci. Chopin, Ravel, Prokofiev.

2017- Farinier

Sunday 29 July 2018 – 20h00 - Cloître de l'Abbaye – Orchestre de Minsk conducted by Alexander Anissimov. Brahms.

Thursday 2 August 2018 – 20h00 - Fariniers des Moines – Ensemble RosaSolis, Magali Léger – soprano, Guy Touvron – trumpet. Haendel, Marcello, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Bach.

Friday 3 August 2018 – 20h00 – Farinier des Moines – Vahan Mardirossian and Tristan Pfaff – piano à 4 mains. Schubert, Guerinel, Brahms, Offenbach.

2017 - Eglise St-Marcel

Saturday 4 August 2018 – 20h00 - Fariniers des Moines – Augustin Dumay – violin, Vanessa Wagner – piano. Brahms, Mozart, Franck.

Thursday 9 August 2018 – 20h00 – Eglise Saint-Marcel – Ensemble Polygones, Fiona McGown – mezzo-soprano, Celia Oneto Bensaid – piano. Great female composers: de Mongeroult, Bonis, C. Schumann, Pepin.

Abbaye de Cluny

Friday 10 a August 2018 - 20h00 – Eglise Saint-Marcel – Quatuor Modigliani. Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky.

Saturday 11 augustus 2018 – 20h00 – Eglise Saint-Marcel – Ensemble vocal et instrumental de l'Ain conducted by Michel Corboz & Eric Reynaud. Glorias of Poulenc resp. Puccini.

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Eglise St-Marcel

The prices of the tickets are at the moment of writing still unknown. From experience I can say that the presention of the series will be free of charge; the tickets for the other concerts will be somewhere in between €20 and €30.