The line-up for the 11th Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence has been unveiled by Dominique Bluzet, the Festival’s Executive Director, and Renaud Capuçon, its Artistic Director, with, as usual, events featuring major international stars such as conductors Tugan Sokhiev, Daniele Gatti, François-Xavier Roth, Christoph Eschenbach and Jean-Claude Casadesus, pianists Alexandre Kantorow and Elisabeth Leonskaja and, violinists Gil Shaham, Pinchas Zukerman and of course, Renaud Capuçon himself. But this new season is marked by a profusion of great sacred works, with particularly dazzling casts. In addition to the traditional Bach Passion on Good Friday (conducted by Andrea Marcon), Jérémie Rhorer conducts Beethoven‘s powerful Missa solemnis (with Chen Reiss), Laurence Equilbey brings us the famous Messiah sung by Sandrine Piau and Jakub Józef Orlinski among others, while Marc Minkowski returns with La Resurrezione, another Handel masterpiece that he conducts like no other. Finally, Bach’s testamentary work, the famous Mass in B BWV 232, will be conducted by Raphaël Pichon with his Ensemble Pygmalion and familiar artists such as the incredible Lucile Richardot – great musical moments in store!
