Exquisite performances
Exquisite performances, writes DN on June 10. The newspaper as well as the Minister for Culture visited Stockholm Early Music Festival and notes at the international standard is high and that the audience are stomping euphoric in the pews. Dagens Nyheter describes the artistry during the Festival as genuine and with sincere love for the material that touches, but also amuses. The festival took place from 4-9 June in Old Town, Stockholm.
It is never too late for early music. With this slogan starts the 12th consecutive Stockholm Early Music Festival; the largest event for Baroque, Renaissance and medieval music. Listen to international greats such as Les Arts Florissants under the direction of Paul Agnew, Freiburger Barockorchester, Anonymous 4, and Swedish artists as Drottningholm Slottsteaters Orchestra conducted by Mark Tatlow, Susanne Rydén with friends and Ensemble Villancico among many others.
The Festival hosts several lectures, early music for kids with Torbjörn Lillieqvist, Ravi Shankar in memoriam and a concert with the next generation of musicians.
Peter Pontvik, who has been responsible for the festival since its inception in 2001, is working hard to put Swedish early music on the Swedish music map; both as practitioner and festival organiser, but also as initiater of a Nordic network for early music, NORDEM. He is also the present Chairman of REMA, the European network for Early Music that last year launched the European Day of Early Music.