L'Achéron

L'Achéron

Versailles is bathed in darkness, but the Sun King is still awake. In a room next to the royal sleeping quarters, Marin Marais lets his beloved viola da gamba sing nocturnal confessions: lamenting, tender, seductive. François Joubert-Caillet and L’Achéron selected pieces from Marais’s royal catalogue in which the viola da gamba best approximates the human voice: from the sweet-voiced La Rêveuse and the legendary Les voix humaines, through mournful tombeaux, to the dizzying Labyrinthe.

Programme

• Marin Marais

  Prélude en harpégement
  L'Arabesque
  La Rêveuse
  Caprice ou Sonate

  1656-1728

• Sarabande à deux violes
  Plainte
  Rondeau Le Troilleur

• Fête Champêtre
  Tombeau pour Mr de Ste Colombe
  Voix humaines
  Couplets de Folies

• Allemande
  Le Labyrinthe
  
  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Julie Dessaint viola da gamba
• Philippe Grisvard harpsichord
• François Joubert-Caillet musical direction, viola da gamba