The Netherlands in the Pays d'Auge

Before embarking on the fast-paced Musical Promenades, you must warm up properly. We entrusted the youth with the role of the prelude and ardor for minor and major strings, in an afternoon in Dozulé before the ball and the fireworks!

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Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, Dozulé

Story with narrator for little ears and five instruments

Text by Jean de Brunhoff and music by Francis Poulenc - Arrangement for wind quintet

 

 

Hameau-Hauger Castle, Amfreville

The concert match

A subtle duel between Vivaldi and Haydn, carried by the playful energy of the Concert de La Loge and two exceptional soloists: Julien Chauvin and Victor Julien-Laferrière.

Saint-Martin Church, Villers-sur-Mer

West Sussex Youth Orchestra in French style

An instrumental ensemble, the English Youth Orchestra crosses the Channel due south for a musical stroll in Normandy.

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Forecourt of the church of Notre-Dame-d'Estrées-Corbon

 

Discovering old strings

A joyful introduction to baroque strings for children, performed by the Ensemble Les Récréations and their period instruments with a fruit paste flavor.

 

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption,

Gonneville-sur-Mer

Pavanes and galliards, strings and winds

An open-air Renaissance ball, between baroque strings and ancient winds: pavanes, gallantries and dance steps gently guided by a dance master.

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Verdun Square, Beaumont-en-Auge

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In the music room of Val-Richer

In the intimate setting of Val-Richer, two masterpieces of chamber music converse: Hummel's Quintet Op. 87, with its classical overtones, and Schubert's famous "Trout Quintet", imbued with freshness and conviviality.

Val-Richer Estate, Saint-Ouen-le-Pin

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For all his baggage, he has his genius...

The Ensemble Correspondances performs three cantatas written by a young Johann Sebastian Bach at the dawn of his career. These vibrant works, revealing his emerging genius, are carried by the energy and precision of a leading ensemble.

Abbey Church of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives

All roads lead to Lisbon

Between Portuguese fado and Lusophone influences, singer Chloé Breillot and guitarist Pierrick Hardy offer a suspended moment, full of nuances. A musical evening imbued with saudade, exoticism, and elegance.

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The Cross of the Liards, Our Lady of Estrées-Corbon

When a writer and a songwriter go on a spree

From the street to the living room, from the common people to the scholars, the people of Lunar New Year perform the sung score of our Human Comedy. A concert that gives color and voice to Balzac's characters.

The Forge, Honfleur

Shops with music

The Lisieux market will come alive with the brass sounds of the Nola Rennes Experience brass band.

Lisieux Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcription for flute, violin, viola da gamba and keyboards

What if Bach had dreamed up his Goldberg Variations differently? Nevermind unveils an unexpected and delicate chamber version, where the flute, violin, and viola da gamba reveal secret hues, like a subdued light on a familiar work.

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Saint-Michel Church, Pont l'Evêque

The sound of medieval Armenia reinvented in the heart of the 21st century

Combining Armenian liturgical chants, Sufi poetry, and contemporary rhythms, the Naghash Ensemble offers striking music that is both deeply rooted and universal. A powerful emotional experience, carried by traditional voices and instruments.

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Haras de la Vallée, Victot-en-Auge

Piano recital by Aline Piboule

Gabriel Fauré, Nocturnes and Barcarolles - Excerpts

Franz Liszt, Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178

Claude Debussy, La Mer (Transcription for piano by Y.Ollivo)

Les Franciscaines, Deauville

Tribute to the golden age of musicals

The famous soprano Natalie Dessay explores the songs of Michel Legrand, between jazz and musical comedy, accompanied by double bassist Pierre Boussaguet.

 

Lisieux Theatre

Travel back in time at the Honfleur market

Lambert Colson and his team play the cornet and sackbut in the open air between the apple and the cheese!

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Honfleur Market

When youth shines on restored stone

Three trios, three wars, but the same light carried by the solar youth of the Trio Hélios, in the restored setting of the Notre-Dame d'Estrées church.​

Notre-Dame-d'Estrées-Corbon Church

Bach's organ pieces transcribed for cornet and sackbuts

Bach's little organ book is reinvented in wind and brass: cornets and sackbuts open up a world of colors and emotions.

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Saint-Michel Church, Cabourg

They do their shopping to music

A singer-trombonist and pianist are joining the Beuzeville market for a delightful musical interlude. Keep your ears open!

 

 

Beuzeville Market

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Lucile Boulanger, bass viol (Victoire de la Musique Classique 2025)

Lucile Boulanger introduces the children to the instrument that has accompanied her since she was very young: the viola da gamba.

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Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain

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The subtle art of singing with beak and feather

De Caelis and the Bird Singers bring nature and the Middle Ages to life in a concert that is as playful as it is refined: a dialogue between feathers and polyphonies.

 

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Bois-Roger Estate, Cléville

Chloé Breillot, vocals and ukulele

Pierrick Hardy, guitar

At La Filature des Possibles in Lisieux, the voice-guitar duo of Chloé Breillot and Pierrick Hardy takes the little ones into their musical fold.

 

 

La Filature des Possibles, Lisieux

 

Female polyphonies from Ferrara to Paris

Behind the closed doors of the Renaissance, women's voices rise in secret. With the Concert des Dames, the Ensemble Correspondances breathes new life and light into these precious polyphonies, born in the shadows of palaces and convents.

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Church of Saint-Hymer

The Lunaisiens and fanfare at the Clairefontaine Hippodrome

The elegance of the racecourse meets musical fantasy: at Clairefontaine, the Lunaisiens, Satie as a ghost and the wild Nola Rennes Experience fanfare invite us to a musical stroll as colorful as a peloton at the start.

Clairefontaine-Deauville Racecourse, Tourgéville

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Musical cinema and creative workshop

Cartoon by Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini

Three animated short films set to Rossini hits, where the music swirls as much as the sets and cut-out paper characters painted by Emanuele Luzzati: there's a bit of Matisse in there, and the pleasure of children's games.

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The Rexy Cinema, Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives

When the cello meets Cuban jazz

Cuban voice, cello, and energy: Ana Carla Maza electrifies the stage with a blend of Caribbean-tinged jazz. Accompanied by fellow musicians, she delivers a vibrant concert, combining classical virtuosity with tropical warmth.

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Haras de la Vallée, Victot-en-Auge

Shops in music

Fruity sounds, arpeggios harmoniously arranged between the stalls, the Paris Opera Wind Quintet comes to do its shopping to music!

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Merville-Franceville Market

Musical cinema

A tender concert film for toddlers: follow a father and his son as they embark on a musical journey filled with soft textures, joyful fanfares... and even Schubert!

 

Concorde Cinema, Pont-l'Evêque

Discovering cones and sackbuts

This Little Renaissance Walk, intended for children, is all the more open to adults as few of us are familiar with book horns and sackbuts!

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Church of Our Lady of Grace, Equemauville

Travel back in time at the Houlgate market

Lambert Colson and his team play the cornet and sackbut in the open air between the apple and the cheese!

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Houlgate Market

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Sonatas for strings without harpsichord

A few pieces, transcribed for strings, by his brother Francesco and his son Domenico complete the program.

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Church of Saint-Sauveur, Beaumont-en-Auge

And the children have a front row seat!

An enchanted dive into the world of opera with Cerise Calixte and Igor Bouin, to be enjoyed with the family in the friendly setting of La Cidrerie .

The Beuzeville Cider House

Lucile Boulanger, bass viol (Victoire de la Musique Classique 2025)

Lucile Boulanger gives voice to the viola da gamba through.

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Rosières Room of the Château de Canon,

Mézidon-Canon

Nomadic music between Indonesia and America

The Ensemble Variances revisits the spirit of the gamelan through a hypnotic musical journey between the Orient and repetitive Western music.

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The Cross of the Liards, Our Lady of Estrées-Corbon

They do their shopping to music

In the port of Honfleur, the Lunaisiens sing folk songs with salty, cheeky voices. They spin and play and live life to the fullest, on the cobbled quays, untouched by the passing of time...

Honfleur Market

 

Jean-Baptiste Gaudray, guitar Laurent Meyer, tenor saxophone - Clément Landais, double bass

At the end of the evening, the trio of Rouen guitarist Jean-Baptiste Gaudray, with Laurent Meyer on tenor sax and Clément Landais on double bass, tints his very melodic jazz with the colors of the night...

 

 

Courtyard of the old school of Saint-Hymer

Open masterclasses and concert by the winners of the Académie du Pays d'Auge 2025

For the third year, the Musical Promenades are renewing their commitment to young professionals called upon to perform, with appropriate instruments, the repertoires of so-called early music.

Auditorium of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives

They do their shopping to music

Artists from the Naghash Ensemble will offer you a musical surprise at the Mézidon-Canon market.

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Mézidon-Canon Market

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