"Music for a Young King - Le Poème Harmonique "

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Saturday, October 21st, 2023
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

A debut Victoria performance by one of the most celebrated and recorded Early Baroque ensembles in France. Royal and popular music from the early reign of Louis XIV, before Versailles.

Music for a Young King explores popular and royal music before Versailles, with excerpts from the very first operas given in France by Lully and Cavalli, “pieces de salon” (Marais, Moulinié), drinking songs and the popular tunes hummed throughout Paris, performed in succession on this lively and exhilarating musical journey. After exploring the 17th century through the intimacy of courtly tunes, and more recently through the great royal panoramas of Lully and Delalande, the Poème Harmonique invites you to enter a living palace, the Louvre, at a time when popular music was omnipresent, and the nobility and the people sang in chorus, from the streets to the court.

Programme:

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Plainte de Vénus sur la mort d’Adonis

Michel-Richard de Lalande

Musette

Marche des Bergers

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Air sur les Stances du Cid

Etienne Moulinié

L’auzel que sul boyssou

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Le bossu maumariée

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Quand je menais les chevaux boire

Francesco Cavalli

Sinfonia, L’Egisto

Sinfonia, Ercole amante

Marco Uccellin

i Sinfonia A gran battaglia

Aria sopra la Bergamasca

Francesco Cavalli

Dell’antro magico, Il Giasone

Luci mie, Xerse

Giovanni Battisa Buonamente

Aria di Fiorenza

Francesco Cavalli

E vuol dunque, from the opera Ercole amante

Piangete occhi dolenti, from the opera L’Egisto

Musicians:

Le Poème Harmonique

Anaïs Bertrand, alto

Vincent Dumestre, theorbo and artistic direction

Fiona-Émilie Poupard, Louise Ayrton, violins

Lucas Peres, Viola da gamba

Simon Guidicelli, doublebass

Camille Delaforge, harpsichord and organ