Les Goûts-réünis: Music of Couperin, Montéclair, Gervais & Renier
When:
Friday, Oct 19, 2018 8:00p -
10:00p
Friday, Oct 19, 2018 8:00p -
10:00p
Where:
Gordon Chapel, Old South Church
645 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
$15-30
Categories:
Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://lesgoutsreunis.brownpapertickets.com/
Les Bostonades kicks off its 2018–2019 season on Friday, October 19 featuring the return of the internationally acclaimed tenor Zachary Wilder. The concert, Les Goûts réunis, whose title is taken from a collection of chamber works by François Couperin (1668–1733), celebrates music of the “reunited tastes” of French and Italian styles from the first half of the 18th century.
Featured pieces include cantata Le Retour de la Paix (“The Return of Peace”) by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737), and two rarely performed cantatas, Télémaque (“Telemachus”) by Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671–1744) and L’Indifférence punie (“The Punishing Indifference”) by Nicolas Renier (d. c.1731).
The program will also contain Couperin’s solo harpsichord works, La Superbe ou La Forqueray (“The Superb One, or Forqueray”) and Les Petits Moulins à Vent (“The Little Windmills”) from his seventeenth ordre, and his L'Apothéose de Lully (“The Apotheosis of Lully”) for various instruments and continuo, to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the birth of the composer.
Admission:
$30 General; $25 Senior; $15 Student; 17 and under free
