Le Poème Harmonique

Le Poème Harmonique

Music in the Louvre
Before the Louvre became the most famous museum in the world, it was a royal residence. Here, drinking songs resounded from the palace kitchens and the elite were enchanted by gamba strings and airs de cour in the salons. From Henri IV to the young Louis XIV, a typically French baroque style grew at the Louvre. Until a young Florentine composer introduced pomp, dance and Italian flair. Le Poème Harmonique sketches the run-up to the musical palace revolution of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Programme

• Jean-Baptiste Lully

  Plainte de Vénus sur la mort d'Adonis

  1632-1687
• Michel-Richard de Lalande

  Musette
  Marche des Bergers

  1657-1726
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier

  Air sur les Stances du Cid

  1643-1704
• Etienne Moulinié

  L'auzel que sul boyssou

  c1600-after 1669
• Anonymous

  Le bossu maumariée
  Quand je menais les chevaux boire

• Francesco Cavalli

  Sinfonia (from: L’Egisto, 1643)
  Sinfonia (from: Ercole amante, 1662)

  1602-1676
• Marco Uccellini

  Sinfonia A gran battaglia
  Aria sopra la Bergamasca

  1603-1680
• Francesco Cavalli

  Dell'antro mágico (from: Giasone, 1649)
  Luci mie (from: Xerse, 1654)

• Giovanni Battisa Buonamente

  Aria di Fiorenza

  d. 1642
• Francesco Cavalli

  E vuol dunque (from: Ercole amante)
  Piangete occhi dolenti (from: L’Egisto)
  
  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Adèle Charvet mezzo-soprano
• Fiona-Emilie Poupard, Louise Ayrton violin
• Lucas Peres viola da gamba
• Chloé Lucas violone
• Elisabeth Geiger organ, harpsichord
• Vincent Dumestre theorbo, musical direction