Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting
BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]
Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones
With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]
Un juste tempérament de joie et de crainte : Michel Lamy
The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]
Janus
Like Janus, the double-faced Roman god who looks towards both the past and the future, for several years the CMBV has teamed up with the Ircam research institute, commissioning for its choir Les Pages [...]
AcadéC – Music Academies in the 18th century
Programme CONTRIBUTORS SESSION Invitation à croiser les données des programmes AcadéC et ACA-RES (Les Académies d’art et leurs réseaux dans la France préindustrielle) Guest: [...]
Retour sur le voyage culturel du Cercle Rameau à Amsterdam
À l’occasion de la production de Castor et Pollux dans sa version historique (1737), jamais entendue depuis près de 60 ans et recréée grâce aux recherches du CMBV, dix-sept Membres du Cercle Rameau ont [...]
Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting
BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]
Applications open for the CMBV 17th century French motet project
In a project headed by Jean Duron, the CMBV is producing a digital publication of two key collections of French sacred music from the first half of the 17th century, namely the Deslauriers manuscript [...]
Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones
With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]
Nouveauté disque : Achante et Céphise, Jean-Philippe Rameau
Achante et Céphise , Jean-Philippe Rameau Opéra Alexis Kossenko, direction musicale ● Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Ecurie ● Les Chantres du CMBV ● Erato (Warner Classics) Sortie [...]
Production
Concerts, stage productions, teaching projects, recordings: the production department encourages the spread of French Baroque music.
Research
Symposiums, study days, seminars, publications, performance practices : the CMBV Research Department is a musicology lab, working in partnership with the CESR and the CNRS.
Musical training
Sharing knowledge of early music and practical expertise in French baroque music in particular, is one of the key missions of the CMBV.
Education & Culture
The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles designs bespoke local activities and outreach projects, notably for youngsters.
Publications
Sheet music, books, CDs and DVDs. The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles offers a variety of publications.
Resources
The CMBV has multiple ressources: a specialised library, digital resources, stage set & costume collections, musical instruments, 18 rehearsal rooms, etc.