Jean Rondeau

[MickyD]

I'm thrilled to be going to see Rondeau at the small concert hall here in Arles on 2 March. Even more fascinating is that he has refused to give details of what he is playing, wanting to get away from the formal style of concert programming. An interesting concept.
I'd like to have a word with him afterwards as to when we can expect his complete Louis Couperin cycle.

[AuntDaisy]

I'm thrilled to be going to see Rondeau at the small concert hall here in Arles on 2 March. Even more fascinating is that he has refused to give details of what he is playing, wanting to get away from the formal style of concert programming. An interesting concept.
I'd like to have a word with him afterwards as to when we can expect his complete Louis Couperin cycle.

Exciting & unexpected. Looking forward to hearing more...

According to this Southbank Centre webpage, a December "Sisyphus" concert included "Works by Bach, Couperin, Ligeti and improvisation".
JR also provided detailed programme notes.

This is not a programme. It’s a musical performance.
Normally, I adhere to the standard exercise of the predefined programme, and the audience has an expectation of what they will hear, the chance even to prepare for it, ready themselves, as for a meal with a seating plan where one is informed in advance who their tablemates will be. The present concept is not intended to negate that established format, but rather to create a musical other, with no desire to be either representational or presentational. A moment of surrender with expectations exchanged for the surprise of an onrushing musical present. In the absence of knowing, the unexpected arises.
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All the notated works to be played are closely linked to returning, repetition, the ritornello (in the established forms: rondeau, chaconne, passacaille, etc.). These pieces, the ridgelines guiding our course, will be like a wellspring from which to draw according to what transpires. Like pillars. These stylistically far-ranging agents (from Couperin to Bach, Ligeti to new music, notated repertoire to transcriptions), rather than issuing from a linear chronology instead inhabit a cartography where points of linguistic convergence create echoes. The whole thing, in one go, without any real interruption. Providing one continuous eruption.
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[Pulcinella]

I'm thrilled to be going to see Rondeau at the small concert hall here in Arles on 2 March. Even more fascinating is that he has refused to give details of what he is playing, wanting to get away from the formal style of concert programming. An interesting concept.
I'd like to have a word with him afterwards as to when we can expect his complete Louis Couperin cycle.

Sounds (every pun intended) rather like switching R3 on.

[Roger Webb]

I'm thrilled to be going to see Rondeau at the small concert hall here in Arles on 2 March. Even more fascinating is that he has refused to give details of what he is playing, wanting to get away from the formal style of concert programming. An interesting concept.
I'd like to have a word with him afterwards as to when we can expect his complete Louis Couperin cycle.

I hope you enjoy it Micky.

The last time I heard a harpsichord 'live' was in Malta. We were walking down Republic St and saw a poster for Mahan Isfahani and the Malta Phil. at the Manoel Theatre, a gem of a building, which often stands in for La Fenice in films!

I would have rather had a solo performance than the two concertos (Poulenc and Gorecki) that we had, but hey!

I first went to the Manoel Theatre in 1970 to hear Siegfried Behrens (anyone remember him today?) play Bach.

Malta is so well endowed with theatres (except the main opera house which was bombed in WW2) that the capital of Gozo, Victoria (Ir-Rabat) has two opera houses........in the same street!

[MickyD]

Exciting & unexpected. Looking forward to hearing more...

According to this Southbank Centre webpage, a December "Sisyphus" concert included "Works by Bach, Couperin, Ligeti and improvisation".
JR also provided detailed programme notes.

Ah, that would be the same concert then that he is doing here, obviously part of a tour. I recognise the same press release. I'll report back!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sounds (every pun intended) rather like switching R3 on.

Quite! However, given his name we might expect him to be returning every so often to the same theme during his movements!