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Hidden behind the pages of music encyclopaedias are thousands of unknown muses and female musicians who lured composers into writing beautiful works. In Renaissance Ferrara, the Duke deliberately kept the songs of his 'Concerto delle donne' away from the printing presses. Vivaldi's Ospedale women did play for audiences but went down in music history anonymously, as did the singers for whom French stars like Boësset and Clérambault created bespoke works. Sébastien Daucé breaks open the vault in which these gems remained hidden for centuries.

Programme

Lodovico Agostini

Ecco col nostro Duca

1534-1590
Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Cor mio deh non languire
Non sa che sia dolore
O dolcezze amarissime d’amore
Stral pungente d’amore
Aura soave

1545-1607
Lodovico Agostini

Una si Chiara luce
Giuseppe Giamberti

Similabo eum

c1600-1662
Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi

Canzone

1583-1643
Bonifazio Graziani

Jacebam in tenebris

1604/05-1664
Antoine Boësset

Anna mater matris redemptoris nostril
Domine Salvum fac regem

1586-1643
Anonymus

Ave Maria

17th century
Antoine Boësset

Salve Regina
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault

Miserere

Programme subject to change

1676-1749

Musicians

Ensemble Correspondances
Sébastien Daucé musical direction

Ensemble Correspondances