Veszprém Early Music Days

The 10th Veszprém Early Music Days are approaching. The two-week festival hosts mostly chamber music groups and smaller vocal groups performing early music. The concerts take place in the 18th-century Jesuit church in the quiet valley of Veszprém, a location perfect for the event. In the current edition of the festival you will have the chance to enjoy the performances of Tasto Solo (Spain), the Les Basses Réunies (France), Armonia Concertada (Spain), Bruno Cocset (France), Csaba Nagy (Hungary), Capella Savaria (Hungary), Recercare Early Music Atelier (Hungary), Haydn Barytontrio Budapest (Hungary) and the local Orlando Ensemble. For a detailed program visit vrn.hu.

The early music movement is trying to revive the musical legacy of these past centuries as far as it is possible. Faithfulness is multifold: beyond authentic musical material, it also means performing on period instruments (mostly copies or reconstructed instruments), in a historically informed way, sometimes in a historical ambient. The historically informed performance does not simply mean the reconstruction of these old instrumental techniques, but also the improvisations unfolding the basic theme. Instruments used in early music are acoustic, gut-stringed, woodwind, etc. sound softly and gently compared to their modern correspondents. Most of the surviving works are solo pieces or music adaptable to chamber ensembles. These genres do not live in large concert halls but in small chamber rooms, church acoustics, or home concerts. In these spaces, the relationship with the audience is also much more direct and intimate.