CONCERTS
Every year, the Association of the Friends of the Château de Bournazel organises a rich cultural season in order to revive this jewel. The château hosts musical and theatrical events, university symposiums, artists’ residences, all of which highlight the extraordinary diversity of the European Renaissance.
PROGRAMME 2025
Saturday, 14 March - 20h
Vous avez dit « Brunettes » ?
Les Kapsber’girls
Alice Duport-Percier, soprano
Axelle Verner, mezzo-soprano
Garance Boizot, viola da gamba, treble viol
Albane Imbs, archlute, baroque guitar, tiorbino
These are little songs that were hummed in each other’s ears, poems sung by a lover to his beloved, or tunes shared among friends after a good bottle of wine.
They invite us to share the daily life and intimacy of these young girls playing near the Apollo Fountain, of these two lovers hidden in the groves, and of these four friends who, over a game of Lansquenet, laugh at courtly tales.
For these Brunettes, as they are called, are certainly lighthearted in character but strong in authenticity. And France, at the dawn of the 18th century, harbored within its borders a multitude of discreet artists whose talent served a bourgeoisie and a nobility fond of melodies that simply told their stories.
With one or two voices, accompanied by lute or viola da gamba, Les Kapsber’girls revive, more three centuries later, these delicate evocations of a French Baroque music that was cheerful and full of wit.
Saturday, 30 May - 20h
Musique au temps de Philippe de Champaigne
Claire Lefilliâtre, vocals & Stéphane Fuget, harpsichord by Claude Labrèche, 1699
On May 29 and 30, 2026, the Château de Bournazel will host an international symposium dedicated to new interpretations of the work of the painter Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674). The symposium will be followed by a concert, which will evoke the musical landscape of a period of stark contrasts, between the splendor of royal entertainments, the flourishing of court culture, and the development of intense spirituality within the environment of the Port-Royal monastery.
A different vision of the Grand Siècle…
Saturday, 27 June - 20h
Récital Chopin et Liszt
Nikita Ramic, Steingraeber D232 piano, Château de Bournazel
Born in Serbia into a family of musicians, Nikita Ramic began playing the piano at the age of three with his mother before furthering his studies in France and Germany. Possessing astonishing virtuosity, he has created a program for the Château de Bournazel’s musical season dedicated to two major figures of the 19th century, Chopin and Liszt, including the spectacular Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Frédéric Chopin
– Impromptu in A-flat major, No. 1, Op. 29
– Scherzo in B-flat minor, No. 2, Op. 31
– Scherzo in E major, No. 4, Op. 54
– Waltz No. 1, Op. 64
– Waltz No. 2, Op. 64
Franz Liszt
– Viennese Evenings: Valse-Caprice No. 6 (Liszt/Schubert)
– After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata
– Paganini Grande Étude No. 6
– Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
– Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
Friday 10 & Saturday 11 July - 20h
Le Cabaret décousu (two different programs)
Philippe Meyer and his friends: Pauline Deshons, Benoît Carré, Guillaume Laloux, Jean-Claude Laudat & Pascal Sangla.
“It’s a song that reflects who we are,” because it’s woven from our feelings, our loves, our sorrows, our encounters, our dreams. It’s a song that brings us together, because it allows us to recognize what we have in common, sometimes even to make it a sign of recognition. Humor, passion, nostalgia, desire, youth, castles in the air, enthusiasm, friendships, rebellion, travel, old age—there are no subjects the song hasn’t addressed (including the most unexpected), and there’s no style it hasn’t adopted if it better served the lyrics. Our cabaret, featuring four voices (one female, three male) and two instruments (a piano and an accordion), offers a musical journey where all genres have their place and, with them, all tones: those of the scale and those of life.
Tuesday, 4 August - 20h
French and Italian Renaissance music for flute ensemble
Le Consort de Passage
Adèle Huber, Emma Crumpton, Pauline Hervouet, Armance Merle (recorders)
The recorder is one of the oldest and most widespread instruments on the planet. From the Renaissance onward, it has been used in ensembles (or consorts), from bass to soprano,
to perform adaptations of famous songs, dances, or sophisticated counterpoint.
Composed of very young musicians trained at the Lyon Conservatory, the Consort de Passage offers you a fleeting journey through the interplay of voices within the large recorder family, by turns poetic and virtuosic. Featuring works by Cipriano de Rore, Claude Gervaise, Clément Janequin, and Carlo Gesualdo.
Wednesday, 5 August - 20h
Plucked and struck strings
Olga Pashchenko, Harpsichord & Piano
Born in Moscow in 1986, Olga Pashchenko is a multi-talented artist who excels equally on the organ and harpsichord as on the piano. Based in the Netherlands, she has been a professor of early piano at the Amsterdam Conservatory since 2017.
For her new concert in Bournazel, she has composed a two-part program, moving from the historic harpsichord by Claude Labrèche (1699) to the modern Steingraeber piano, from Baroque to Romantic music, in a display of virtuosity. With her, even the most difficult music always seems simple and effortless. The mark of the truly great…
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Suite in D minor/major
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite in G major
Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 10 11
György Ligeti: Musica ricercata
Frédéric Chopin: Andante spianato and great Polish brilliant op. 22
Thursday, 6 August - 20h
Le Consort de Passage
Camille Poul (soprano) & Maude Gratton (Labrèche 1699 and Humeau 2014 harpsichords)
A unique journey through the vocal and harpsichord works of 17th and 18th-century female composers. By approaching the creative force of these women artists and immersing ourselves in their works, we discover their intimate thoughts, their rebellions, their joys—what they dare not say aloud, yet what they cry out. We must be dazzled by the battles these women fought: claiming the freedom not to be a muse, an object, to choose their own destiny, their loves, their status, all while coping with what cannot be changed.
Arias and harpsichord pieces by Julie Pinel, Mademoiselle La Menetou, Mademoiselle Sicard, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Madame Papavoine, Elisabeth Louise Demers, Antonia Bembo, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini…
Trained at the Paris Conservatory, Camille Poul is equally at home in the Baroque repertoire and in the operatic repertoire, from Monteverdi to Debussy.
Harpsichordist, pianist, and organist, Maude Gratton is a concert performer, ensemble conductor, and organ professor at the Paris Conservatory.
PRICES: INDIVIDUAL CONCERTS
Adult: €30 – Under 18: €25
PRICES: PACKAGES
Package for the 3 summer concerts (August 4, 5, and 6)
Adult: €80 – Under 18: €65
Package for 2 concerts at the Cabaret Décousu
Adult: €50 – Under 18: €40
Package for the 8 concerts in 2026
Adult: €200 – Under 18: €160
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2025 - Programme Musical
Daniel Isoir, The Curious Bards, Aline Zylberajch, le Cabaret Décousu, Pino de Vittorio, Jeanne Mathieu, Alain Roudier, Ekaterina Polyakova, Benjamin Alard et Elisabeth Joyé
2024 - Programme Musical
Océane Deweider, Gabrielle Resche, Noémie Lenhof, le Cabaret Décousu, Terpsycordes, Pierre Hantaï, Pernelle Marzorati et Les Kapsber’girls
2023 - Programme Musical
Hopkinson Smith, les Sacqueboutiers, le Cabaret Décousu de Philippe Meyer, Jeanne Mathieu and Alain Roudier, Olga Pashchenko, Ensemble Phaedrus, Théâtre de l’Incrédule et le Poème Harmonique
2021 - Programme Musical
Le Cabaret Décousu de Philippe Meyer, Bor Zuljan, Tasto Solo et Benjamin Alard
2020 - Ensemble Tasto Solo - « Virtuosity and Refinement at the turn of the Renaissance »
Three concerts by an ensemble now central to the European cultural landscape, featuring repertoires from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
2019 - Ensemble Tasto Solo - Anna Inglese
Concert dedicated to Anna Inglese, one of the few professional singers working in Italy in the 15th century, whose “soft and subtle voice, not human but divine” had been noted in 1455.
2019 - Carte blanche to the La Lyra ensemble
Three concerts devoted to the extraordinary evolution of keyboard instruments during the Renaissance, through three original and rare approaches.
2018 - Keyboards in the Renaissance
Ensemble TASTO SOLO (Guillermo Perèz, organetto, David Catalunya, clavisimbalum and Angélique Mauillon, renaissance harp) Enea Sorini, tenor and Corina Marti, Renaissance harpsichord Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
2017 - Ensemble Doulce Mémoire
Made up of a team of faithful and close-knit musicians and singers, the Doulce Mémoire ensemble has been involved for more than twenty-five years in artistic adventures that are always innovative, with the regular participation of actors and dancers.
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Crédit photographique : Robin .H. Davies
The Association of the Friends of Château de Bournazel was created in January 2012 with the aim of promoting this exceptional Historic Monument by organising cultural events contributing to the enhancement of the artistic heritage of the Renaissance. The Association, through its actions, aims to encourage the reception of the public but also of researchers specialising in the period. In the same way, the association provides human, material and financial support for the conservation, restoration, protection and accessibility of the Château.
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