Il Contrapposto in concert (Groupmuse)
Sat, May 04
|Newton
Come join us for new musical emotions and experiences with some beautiful Renaissance and Baroque chamber music.
Time & Location
May 04, 2024, 1:00 PM
Newton, Newton Highlands, Newton, MA, USA
About the event
This program includes a variety of pieces from France in the 17th and 18th centuries. The highlight is the third of Francois Couperin's Leçons de ténèbres à une et à deux voix (namely the one for two voices/a deux voix), a musical setting of text from the Lamentations of Jeremiah The Prophet, which features expressive recitatives of text in latin, and melismas on the first letter of the text in Hebrew, combining to create what English music critic Wilfrid Mellers called "the highest point of Couperin's church music, and one of the peaks of his music as a whole."
Balancing this more significant work are pieces for two voices and basso continuo by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, airs de cour from an earlier point in French music by Antoine de Boesset and Etienne Moulinie, pieces for viola da gamba and continuo by Marin Marais, and more.
RSVP here: https://www.groupmuse.com/events/14177-let-s-bask-in-the-music-of-the-theorbo-the-viola-da-gamba-and-two-voices