Musiques au temps de Rembrandt

Le Siècle d'Or Hollandais - 2023

Rembrandt était-il musicien ? Quelle musique a-t-il pu connaître et entendre ?

The golden age of German Baroque

Bach and Telemann -

J.S. Bach et G.P. Telemann ont aussi écrit pour le luth et la viole de gambe, deux instruments magnifiques et étonnants que l’on connait peu aujourd’hui...

London 1740

Romance and ballads in Vauxhall Gardens -

Music of Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685 - 1759) | Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 - 1778) | James Oswald (1711 - 1769) Pietro Castrucci (1679 - 1752)

Birds’ concert

This program evokes, through the fascination of men for birds, a certain vision of music in the 17th and 18th centuries, between science, nature and culture.

Madame de Pompadour’s “Salon de Musique”

A little concert in the country style -

Many social changes took place in the 18th century, together with a new sensitivity to the arts. The reign of Mme de Pompadour, Louis XIV’s mistress, gave an impetus of gaiety and fantasy to the arts, which was copied all over Europe.

Human Voices

The legacy of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe -

Marin Marais, son of a simple Parisian cobbler, studied the viola da gamba under the aegis of the greatest master of the time, Monsieur de Sainte Colombe.

Fête champêtre

With the music of Louis de Caix d’Hervelois, Marin Marais and François Couperin -

Marin Marais, an emblematic figure of the French viol school, possesses the grace, elegance and spirit that make up the charm of the nascent 18th century French taste.

Northern European Fantasies

Sonates of Dietrich Buxtehude, Dietrich Becker & Johann Adam Reinken -

Dietrich Buxtehude was a key figure of the north German instrumental repertory for violin and viol, caracteristic of the stylus fantascicus.

Telemann and Handel, a synthesis of european styles

Trios and Quartets with viola da gamba -

A programme of chamber music composed of trios and quartets selected among lesser known works

London 1700

Purcell & his generation -

Instrumental music in London around 1700: works by H.Purcell, J.Blow, A.Draghi, J.C.Pepusch, G.Finger.

London 1720

Corelli's Legacy -

Musique instrumentale à Londres autour de 1720 : œuvres de G.F. Haendel, W .Babell, J.C. Pepusch, F. Geminiani, J.C. Schickhardt

London circa 1760

Germans in London -

Works of Johann-Christian Bach, Georg Friedrich Haendel & Karl Friedrich Abel