BBC Proms: Christophe Rousset’s supremely elegant ensemble, which has been breathing new life into the rich legacy of the French Baroque for nearly 30 years, presented a programme at the 2011 Proms that fell squarely into the Gallic tradition but with influences from across the Alps. The programme includes music from Couperin’s colourful Les nations and Rameau’s delicately poised Pièces de clavecin en concerts.
Less familiar may be the eloquent cantata telling the story of Lucretia and her suicideby Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, an important musical figure in the period between Lully and Rameau, who counted Couperin’s daughters among his pupils.
Couperin: Les nations – La piemontaise
Lully; Les amours déguisés – ‘Ah Rinaldo, e dovè sei?’
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts – Premier concert
Montéclair: Cantata ‘Morte di Lucretia’
Eugénie Warnier (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord/director)
(From BBC Proms, 1 August 2011)
Less familiar may be the eloquent cantata telling the story of Lucretia and her suicideby Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, an important musical figure in the period between Lully and Rameau, who counted Couperin’s daughters among his pupils.
Couperin: Les nations – La piemontaise
Lully; Les amours déguisés – ‘Ah Rinaldo, e dovè sei?’
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts – Premier concert
Montéclair: Cantata ‘Morte di Lucretia’
Eugénie Warnier (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord/director)
(From BBC Proms, 1 August 2011)
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