Ensemble Odyssee
Can you imitate trumpets, drums, or shepherd’s flutes? If your name is Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, the answer is ‘yes’! His Sérénade ou concert (1697) is playful sound theatre in which instruments disguise themselves and imitate one another. Recorders, oboes, and strings effortlessly switch roles in minuets, gavottes, and pastoral dances. Ensemble Odyssee connects Montéclair’s music with the work of Jean-Féry Rebel, resulting in a Baroque masquerade full of echoes, mirror images, and sound illusions.
Programme
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Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
Airs de fanfare
Ouverture
Trompettes
Menuet I
Fantaisie
Menuet en rondeau
Courante I
Menuet II
Rigaudon I & II
(from: Sérénade ou concert, Paris 1697)1667-1737 -
Jean-Féry Rebel
Boutade
Lentement
Vivement1666-1747 -
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
Airs tendres
Sommeil
Sarabande
Menuet
Gavotte
Bourrée
Sarabande
Menuet
(from: Sérénade ou concert) -
Jean Féry Rebel
Caprice – Fantasie
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Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
Airs champestres
Marché des bergers
Courante
Bourrée
Pantalonade en rondeau
Branle de vilage, à mener
Suite du Branle
Chalumeaux rondeau
Menuet
Danse de village
(from: Sérénade ou concert) -
Jean-Féry Rebel
Les caractères de la danse
Prelude – Courante – Menuet – Bourrée – Chaconne – Sarabande – Gigue – Rigaudon – Passepied – Gavotte – Sonate – Gavotte – Sonate – Loure – Musette – Reprise – Sonate
(from: Recueil de douze Sonates, Paris 1715)
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Anna Stegmann, Georg Fritz recorder
- Georg Fritz, Daniel Lanthier oboe
- Antonio Constenla musette
- Benny Aghassi bassoon
- Eva Saladin, Tomoe Badiarova, Ivan Iliev, David Alonso Molina violin, viola
- Agnieszka Ozanca basse de violon
- Bob Smith viola da gamba
