Posted on August 10, 2022
The Mélopée festival, a chamber music festival in Josselin, will take place from Friday August 12 to Sunday August 14, in different places in Josselin. Over the weekend, spectators will be able to hear the Psophos Quartet, cellist Gauthier Herrmann and Nicolas Baldeyrou, clarinetist with the Orchester National de France…
This Tuesday, August 9, Emmanuelle Bordon, president of the association Mélopée d’art et culture, accompanied by Lionel Gaboriau and Brigitte Malboeuf, reciprocally vice-president and treasurer, invited, to the chapel of the Congregation, the headliner of the festival: The Psophos Quartet: Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann, Bleuenn Le Maître, Cécile Grassi and Guillaume Martigné. Together, they announced the detailed program for the 3 days of the festival.
The municipality of Josselin and the Château des Rohan being partners of the festival, Fanny Larmet, the cultural assistant at the town hall of Josselin and Flore Leclercq, the person in charge of the castle were also present…
The presence of these 4 musicians is a godsend for the festival! Having won first prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux in 2001, they were also the first French quartet to be selected by the prestigious New Generation Artist of the BBC, then nominated for the Victoires de la Musique in 2005…
At the origin of the festival, there was the crush of the quartet for Josselin! Attached now to this thousand-year-old city, it will be for this second edition that the Quatuor Psophos will perform in Josselin, perhaps also because Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann’s maternal grandmother is from the town…
Several concerts will resound, in various places of the city, to attract music lovers, families, passing visitors, locals and make them discover the masterpieces of chamber music, and offer them unforgettable musical moments.
A veritable musical wandering intended to make the general public discover that, contrary to popular belief, chamber music is a popular art. Get caught up in the game…
Friday August 12:
–8:30 p.m.: Chapel of the Congregation Concert: with the Psophos Quartet, and cellist Gauthier Herrmann:
Ludwig van Beethoven, on 18 n.6
Franz Schubert, 2 cello quintet D 956
Saturday August 13:
– 3:30 p.m.: Hôtel du château: interactive jukebox, surprise with:
Four Psophus Gauthier Herrmann et Nicolas Baldeyrou
–8:30 p.m. – Chapel of the Congregation:
Concert with Four Psophos and Nicolas Baldeyrou:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintet K 581 with clarinet Johannes Brahms, op 115 quintet with clarinet
Sunday August 14:
The great musical day, in partnership with the Banquet Céleste and the Academy of Sacred Art of Sainte-Anne d’Auray: the day will be special with no less than 5 concerts:
- 11 a.m.: Musical walk: departure from Square de Tard
- 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.: Chapel of the Congregation: The Celestial Banquet : early music ensemble, vocal soloists
- 5:30 p.m.: Basilica – Academy of Sacred Art: a bridge between art, culture and faith
- 8:30 p.m. – Closing concert in the castle garden: with Quatuor Psophos and Gauthier Herrmann: Félix Mendelssohn, string quartet op 13 A. Arensky quartet op 35 for violin, viola and 2 cellos
Souvenir sextet concert from Tchaikovsky’s Florence.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION :
Come, young and old, to familiarize yourself with the geniuses of chamber music in a warm, festive and friendly atmosphere…
For more information and reservations on:
festival-melopee.fr Contact organisation : [email protected]
-The ticket office will be on site: open 1 hour before the concerts
-Prices :
Chapel of the Congregation: 20 euros and 15 euros for members
Hotel and courtyard of the castle: 10 euros and 5 euros for members