His first time at the Misteria Paschalia festival in Krakow?
The conductor and lutenist Vincent Dumestre remembers it as if it were yesterday.
“It was fifteen years ago.
I was transported by the richness of this city and its heritage: there are more churches there than in Paris.
However, Krakow remains relatively unknown internationally.
But beyond the architecture, it was above all the fervor of the public and the mix of atmospheres, festive and collected, that struck me,”
he recalls.
A fervor that he intends to put to good use for his first edition as new artistic director of Misteria Paschalia, which would, today, be the
“largest
early music festival in Central and Eastern Europe, and one of the greatest in Europe, period.
From harpsichord to virginal
Since its creation in 2004, Misteria Paschalia has seen all the world's great specialists in early music come and go.
Baroques, of course, from Jordi Savall to Raphaël Pichon.
But also…
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