Repertoire
Louis-Antoine Lefebvre (c. 1700-1763): “Venez chère ombre” from Les regrets
Michel-Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737): Plainte à deux violons / La bergère
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738): Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Nos. 3, 4
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) : Le Sommeil d’Ulisse
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749): Sonata in G La félicité, C 52 / Léandre et Héro
Artists
Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano
Justin Taylor, harpsichord
Le Consort
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
Sophie de Bardonnèche, violin
Louise Pierrard, viola da gamba
Program
PROGRAMSoprano Emmanuelle de Negri and Le Consort, conducted by promising young harpsichordist Justin Taylor, invite us to enjoy the delicate, poetic world of French baroque cantatas, a genre that reached its highpoint in the 18th century. The programme is made up of several highly compact pieces, some lasting for just a few minutes. Despite this, they have a powerful dramatic force, expressing sentiments like love, heartbreak, tenderness, vengeance, happiness or tragedy, always overlaid by a sweet, refined, typically French sense of melancholy. In addition to the music of two great names in chamber music, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, we will also be able to hear the far less well-known music of Louis-Antoine Lefebvre (whose exquisite opening aria of the “cantatille” Les regrets was chosen for the title of this programme) and the instrumental music of Jean-François Dandrieu.
