Fringe: Quiebros

Fringe: Quiebros

This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026.

Quiebros was founded in 2024 by Spanish harpsichordist Darío Cervera and French countertenor Virgile Pellerin. The ensemble brings together musicians of different nationalities around Spanish and French early music, contemporary works for historical instruments, and new interpretations of 20th-century repertoire. Combining music, poetry and theatre, Quiebros creates original dramaturgies that present early music as a living, contemporary art form. Since 2025, the ensemble has been in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris and is supported by Fondation Safran and the Nguyen Thien Dao Fund.

Programme

• Michel Lambert

  Bien que l'Amour fasse toute ma peine

  1610-1699
• Sébastien Le Camus

  Amour, cruel Amour, laisse finir mes larmes

  c1610-1677
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier

  Ah ! Laissez-moi rêver, H.441

  1643-1704
• François Couperin

  Le Dodo, ou l’Amour au Berceau
  (from: Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin)

  1668-1733
• Barbara Strozzi

  Amor Dormiglione

  1619-1677
• Henry Purcell

  Cupid, the slyest rogue alive

  1659-1695
• François Couperin

  Les Dars Homicides
  (from: Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin)

• John Blow

  Venus and Adonis
  You place with such delightful care / Cupid’s lesson / Choose for the formal fool

  1649-1708
• Sebastían Durón

  Salir el Amor del Mundo, ‘Sosieguen, descansen’
  El Pícaro de Cupido

  1660-1716
• Georg Friedrich Handel

  Vedendo amor, HWV 175
  Vedendo amor
  In un folto bosco ombroso
  In quel bosco sen venne
  Camminando lei pian piano
  Caricò, scaricò
  Rise Eurilla, rise amore
  
  Programme subject to change

  1685-1759

Musicians

• Virgile Pellerin countertenor
• Blandine Daubercies violin
• Darío Cervera harpsichord