Concert de la lumière – “La Monica, variations on a Baroque-era hit”

Sunday 28 June 2026 at 6:00 am

At the time when the sun shines into the Abbey Church through the central window of the apse, around the summer solstice, as everything awakens, come and enjoy a unique experience beneath the vaults of Switzerland’s largest Romanesque church.

Each year, one of the dawn concerts highlights the Abbey Church organ, built especially for early music. In 2026, the musicians of the Capella Paterniacensis present a series of variations on the melody of La Monica, famous throughout Baroque Europe, featuring works for keyboard, strings or winds by composers as varied as Frescobaldi, Byrd, Du Caurroy, Marini and Böddecker…

Concert organised by the Association des Concerts de Payerne
Free admission – collection
Duration: 1 hour

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