La Néréide

La Néréide

In a boarding school – somewhere in the France of Louis XIV – girls learn to pray and be obedient during the day. But in the evening, other emotions sneak inside the school walls: desire, doubt, rebellion. La Néréide captures the life of such a demoiselle, caught between devotion and passion, in music. Monumental misereres by Clérambault and Lalouette clash with provocative airs de cour by Lambert, Jacquet de la Guerre, and contemporaries. Who wins the duel between head and heart?

Programme

• Du Parc

  Je ne sais pas ce que je sens

  fl. 17th century
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault

  Miserere mei Deus, C. 116
  Miserere mei deus
  Quoniam in iniquitatem mean
  Ecce enim in iniquitatibus
  Asperges me hyssopo
  Averte faciem tuam
  Docebo iniquos vias tuas
  Libera me
  Sacrificium Deo
  Tunc acceptabis

  1676-1749
• Honoré d’Ambruys

  Le doux silence de nos bois

  fl. 1680-1710
• Michel de la Barre

  Quand une âme est bien atteinte

  c1675-1745
• Michel Lambert

  Laisse-moi soupirer, importune raison

  c1610-1696
• Jean-François Lalouette

  Miserere
  Miserere mei Deus
  Ecce enim in iniquitatibus
  Averte faciem tuam
  Docebo iniquos vias tuas
  Libera me
  Domine labia mea aperies
  Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium Deo
  Sacrificium Deo
  Benigne fac Domine
  Tunc acceptabis

  1651-1728
• Anonymous

  J’avais cru qu’en vous aimant instrumentaal

  17th century
• Honoré d’Ambruys

  Lorsqu’avec une ardeur extrême

• Élisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre

  La douce folie que celle d’aimer
  
  Programme subject to change

  c1665-1729

Musicians

• Julie Roset soprano
• Camille Allérat soprano
• Ana Vieira Leite soprano
• TBA viola da gamba, organ, archlute