Ensemble Correspondances

Ensemble Correspondances

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

• Caroline Weynants, Maud Haering, Caroline Bardot, Perrine Devillers soprano
• Blandine de Sansal, Ariane Le Fournis alto
• Gabriel Rignol theorbo
• Angélique Mauillon harp
• Étienne Floutier viola da gamba, lirone
• Sébastien Daucé organ, harpsichord, musical direction