It takes place over 5 days and offers 250 concerts

Since its creation by René Martin, in 1995, "The mad day" Nantes is a case of walking and walking far since, not happy to expand in the region, in the Pays de la Loire, is exported to the Japan in Spain to the Brazil... Ambitious and generous, it celebrated Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, European national schools... With worshippers and guests don't miss this weekend the Tallis Scholars Daniel spoon and its excellent baroque Ensemble from Nantes, Zhu Xiao-Mei, Skip Sempé, Hugo Reyne and his Simphonie du Marais, Philippe Jaroussky, Pierre Hantaï, Benjamin Alard...

The program, this year, back to the baroque; This edition is entitled, in effect, "Schütz Bach". It takes place over 5 days and offers 250 concerts. Jean-Sébastien, the received Cantor (1685-1750) was the unique features will not be. Him to consolidate those that preceded it, and which he was the heir, starting with Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) and Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707).

Heinrich Schütz, "Sagittarius".

Schütz, nicknamed "Sagittarius", was born just a century before Bach. First formed in Germany, he, with his patron Maurice of Hesse-Kassel, further his musical education in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli, master of Chapel of San Marco. Venice, it is also the city where flourishes fully the talents of Claudio Monteverdi still in service in Mantua, the latter does joined the serene than in 1613, whereas Schütz to leave for his country. Schütz will remain forever marked by the first stay. In 1617, he moved to Dresden, where he established for fifty-five years at the Court of the elector of Saxony. He will return to the lagoon in 1628; for more than a year, it will benefit from the teaching of Monteverdi. In his work, based Italian and German influences which colors embodying the sacred texts. Of the "Italian madrigals" 1611 at the "Christmas Oratorio" of 1664, the path is long, staked to inescapable masterpieces such as the "sacrad Symphoniad" (published in 1629) and the "small spiritual concerts" (1636), and three "Passions" (1664-1666). Famous in his time, the father of the oratorio and the German Cantata undergoes a long purgatory before be rediscovered in the late 19th century.

Buxtehude, the pedagogue

Son of musician, Buxtehude was probably born in Helsingborg (then located at the Denmark City), where it will take, as early as 1660, the organ of the Church Sainte-Marie, before being appointed to the Marienkirche of Lübeck eight years later he spent 39 years. Composer, exercising his talents both in the field of the instrument that in vocal music, he was also a renowned teacher, whose reputation spread far beyond the region. It is to hear that in 1705 a young man of twenty years-loving music, Johann Sebastian Bach, made on foot, from Arnstadt, a trip which will have considerable influence on his art. Buxtehude is somehow the link which leads Schütz to Bach. Thirty-one hundred five of his compositions are devoted to the voice and a kind in full development, the Protestant Cantata. His organ, beautiful artwork, is abundant, but none of the parts contained in it was published during the lifetime of the author.

These two designers with Bach, are the lights of this new edition of "crazy day"; This German baroque, "current of thought and not only artistic movement", as rightly stated Gilles Cantagrel in the preface to the book published by Fayard-Mirare "of Schütz to Bach: music of the Baroque in Germany", has not finished ask and move us. A dialogue will continue with the command to the Uri Caine "Goldberg Variations" revisiting jazzman, and a tribute to Bach due to Bruno Mantovani.