GLORIOSA
La musique au féminin au Grand Siècle
The programme GLORIOSA highlights the role of women in 17th-century music. Whether as composers or patrons, they played a major role in the musical production in France. Thus, Mlle de Guise was one of the key figures in Parisian musical life, particularly due to the ensemble she maintained. Marc-Antoine Charpentier served her between 1670 and 1688 and composed numerous works for this ensemble, largely made up of female musicians. Similarly, Charlotte d'Ailly received the dedication of Dumont's first collection, Cantica Sacra, before he became Master of Music to the Queen. Finally, some women managed to establish themselves as composers, like Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, an iconic figure of her time. Five musicians, including one singer.
CEASE, SORROWS!
Chansons du temps de Shakespeare
The programme CEASE, SORROWS features works composed after the Elizabethan era, at the dawn of the reign of James I. From dance suites to the most melancholic airs, including songs full of wit and humour, this programme reflects the diversity and richness of English music at the beginning of the 17th century.
THE CRIES OF LONDON
What did a day in London sound like in the 17th century? With the program THE CRIES OF LONDON, we invite the audience to immerse themselves in the musical universe of a day in London from the church to the streets. Through different effects of spatialization, the audience is partly spectator of the concert, partly embodying the role of the congregation in the church or of the passersby in the streets of London.
SALVE REGINA
Boesset et les religieuses de Montmartre
"Nowadays, Antoine Boësset, the genius of Musique douce and so highly esteemed by Louis XIII that he appointed him Intendant de la Musique of his Chamber and that of the Queen, was also laid to rest here, to the great sorrow of the nuns, whom he had taught to sing and who watered his tomb with their tears." I is with these words that Henri Sauval presents Boesset in his chapter on the abbey of Montmartre from Histoire […] de Paris. Through the works of this composer, the SALVE REGINA programme recreates the musical repertoire of one of the most prominent churches of Louis XIII’s reign, once again bringing to life the voices of these nuns.
Sacred Anthems
Musique sacrée de Matthew Locke
Ce programme présente la musique religieuse de Matthew Locke, et organiste de Charles II et de Catherine de Bragance
Oeuvres de Locke
Effectif : 9 musiciens (4 chanteurs, 3 violes de gambe, 1 orgue)
Durée : 75 minutes