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The seats of this concerts are unnumbered. Although a plan is shown at the time of the purchase, the seats will be occupied on a first come, first served basis. The ticket selected on the plan will not match a specific seat.

Emmanuelle de Negri and Le Consort

Venez, chère ombre

Foto Emmanuelle de Negri ©Clemence Demesme

Performers

Program

Soprano 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.