ReRenaissance – Forum for Early Music - Switzerland

ReRenaissance is Basel’s forum for early music, designing and premiering new concert programmes each month. A changing rotation of artistic directors create unique, newly-formed ensemble constellations built from a cast of musical stars from the Basel region. Since its founding in 2020, ReRenaissance has welcomed more than 100 musicians to its stage and created 50 concerts. Each of these signature programmes illuminate a specific time, place and story. Together, they begin to weave a tapestry of “music before 1600”.

Did you know? ReRenaissance performs beyond Basel. Contact us to book a Basel·ReRenaissance concert at your series or festival and find the perfect Renaissance complement to your theme.
 

ReRenaissance's 2nd Festival opens with the world-renowned Profeti della Quinta, presenting “Madrigalfest”, a programme of madrigals describing nature and the love between nymphs and shepherds. Among the composers are Maddalena Casulana, whose first book of madrigals is the the first music print by a woman.  

On Saturday evening, Le Miroir de Musique presents “Fabula di Orfeo” by Angelo Poliziano. Only the text to this musical drama survives, but Baptiste Romain, director, has been researching the kind of improvised music that would have accompanied such a text, and has created a version as it might have sounded in Mantua in the 1480s.  

New to the festival in 2025 is a late-night concert. Basel·ReRenaissance celebrates the sun in its absence with “Fair Oriana” – English Madrigals for the Queen, a performance of The Triumphs of Oriana, printed in 1601 by Thomas Morley; directed by Elizabeth Rumsey.  

Following on the success of 2023’s sacred programme for a Sunday morning, Basel·ReRenaissance presents “Veni in hortum meum”, a collection of motets with texts from the Song of Songs, including motets by Raphaella Aleotti’s 1593 collection, the first sacred music to be published by a woman. These will be performed with voices, trombones and cornetti, led by Tamsin Cowell and Catherine Motuz.  

Our mainstage series closes on Sunday evening with “Pastorçico” by Ensemble Danguy, which explores the dream of Arcadia on the Iberian peninsula.

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Basel will be transformed into a Renaissance paradise for one magical weekend, bringing together fifty leading specialists in early music. Experience a fascinating journey through 11 concerts, a bustling music market, inspiring lectures and a stimulating roundtable, as well as a variety of interdisciplinary events revolving around botany and Renaissance music – from the opening circle dance to the closing shepherd’s song. We invite you to join our festival in the pursuit of beauty, harmony with nature, and peace.

TICKETS
https://www.kulturticket.ch/50027/rerenaissance-festival

Relax and enjoy all the ReRenaissance Festival concerts with a Festival Pass (including program booklet and admission to the Music Museum). (With 1% of your ticket price you support mein Baum dein Baum, which brings a modern “ARCADIA” to Basel by planting trees in communal spaces.)

Also featuring:
[hanse]Pfeyfferey
Traverso Consort Loreley
Syrens
Ensemble KIMA
Flores y Canciones
Familienkonzert «Frederick»

Full program here:
https://rerenaissance.paperturn-view.com/?pid=ODg8890737&v=1.1&p=1