The 15th edition of the Bucharest Old Music Festival takes place from 27^th of November to 5^th of December 2020. In this difficult year, the event organisers decided that it should go ahead and take place in an online version. Moreover, the visual of this year's edition, a portrait by the artist Volker Hermes, perfectly reflects the state we are in today and we believe it will become a veritable time capsule. Anyone who will see it, will know unequivocally that it is 2020, the year of grace.

The current edition focuses on the music of the 17th and 18th centuries (with small escapades outside this time interval), the poster being the names of composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Hndel, Robert de Vise, Georg Philipp Telemann, Heinrich Inaz Franz von Biber, Jean-Marie Leclair and others.

It is an edition that aims to bring into your house some of the most important pages written for harpsichord, theorb or violin, a true royal sound. This 7 events of this year bring to the public of Bucharest, and beyond, sound names from the universe "early music" and old friends of the Festival, such as Xavier Daz-Latorre (Baroque/Teorb guitar), Ketil Haugsand (harpsichord), Yuko Inoue (fortepiano), Melinda Bres (Baroque violin), Mircea Ionescu (Baroque violin), Rafael Butaru (Baroque violin), Csibi Dvid (Baroque viola), Ciprian Campean (Baroque cello), Istvn Csata (viola da gamba and violin) and Raluca Enea (harpsichord) or the "Codex" Old Music Ensemble (St. George), among others.

Official program - Bucharest Old Music Festival, 15th edition, 2020:

Bach by Concerts

Friday, 27^th of November 2020

Melinda Bres, Mircea Ionescu, Rafael Butaru - Baroque violins Csibi Dvid - viola baroque Ciprian Campean - baroque cello Istvn Csata - violin Raluca Enea - harpsichord

The Guitar of the Roi

Saturday, 28^th of November 2020

Xavier Daz-Latorre - Baroque/Teorb guitar

Solo or 2

Sunday, 29^th of November 2020

Melinda Bres, Csibi Dvid - Baroque violins

Viola da gamba - The Story

Monday, 30^th of November 2020

Istvn Csata - viola da gamba

Raluca Enea - harpsichord

Bach. Sons and Friends

Thursday, 3^rd of December 2020

Ketil Haugsand - harpsichord

Yuko Inoue - fortepiano

Sweet carmen and melodum

Friday, 4^th of December 2020

Ensemble of Old Music "Codex"

Handel vs Handel

Saturday, 5^th of December 2020

Cristina Vasilache - soprano

Mircea Ionescu, Rafael Butaru - Baroque violins

Ciprian Campean - Baroque cello

Raluca Enea harpsichord

All concerts can be watched online, live stream, on earlymusic.ro website, facebook page and Youtube channel - Bucharest Early Music Festival. Online concerts and rehearsals for them are organized with strict application of the legal regulations in force - Joint Order of the Ministry of Culture and The Ministry of Health No. 3.142/1.495/2020 (annex as amended by Order No 3.205/1.708/2020) on measures to prevent contamination with the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and to ensure safe health activities in the field of culture.