Lamento
- 15:30
- Paris | Salle Cortot
- France
Commented Concert, preceded by a Public Masterclass at 2:00 PM.
Presented in partnership with the prestigious École Normale de Musique de Paris / Salle Cortot.
Proudly supported by the Talens Lyriques Patrons’ Circle.
PROGRAM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Lamento d’Arianna (1623)
Michel Lambert (ca 1610-1696)
Air de cour « Ombre de mon amant » (1689)
Air de cour « Par mes chants tristes et touchants » (1689)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Dido and Æneas, Z. 626 (1689) « Peace and I are strangers grown »
The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulations, Z. 196 (1693)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Isis, LWV 54 (1677) « Terminez mes tourments »
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667)
Suite XIX en do mineur
Tombeau fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche, GbWV 632
Louis Couperin (ca 1626-1661)
Suite en fa majeur
Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher
DISTRIBUTION
Ambroisine Bré, mezzo-soprano
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset, direction & clavecin
« The lamento is a relatively classic form in the musical expression of opera. What we love to showcase in opera is love; and when love ends badly, that’s when the tears come, when suffering is shared, and the musical moments become ever more expressive. It began with Monteverdi, who was the first to write operas that were truly captivating and psychological. This trend then spreads across Europe, particularly in France, but also across the Channel to England, which brought us to find lamenti not only with Lambert, Lully, but also with Purcell. The lamento, this intimate heartache, is the place where misfortunes and fragile heartbreaks are told: this is why we need nothing more than a continuo to accompany this programme. »
– Christophe Rousset