Alex be joining Platinum Consort as a member of the professional consort for their annual performance of Handel’s Messiah at St John’s Smith Square.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/handel-messiah/
Musica Antica Rotherhithe present three raucous madrigal comedies by Alessandro Striggio (1535-1592) and Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634): La Caccia (The Chase), Il Cicalamento delle Donne al Buccato (The Gossip of the Women at the Well) and La Pazzia Senile (The Old Codger). Filled with innuendo and satire of sex, class and society at large, these comedies reveal a fascinating, scandalising glimpse of late sixteenth century Italian urban society that, at times, looks no different to our own, as well as being set to brilliant, rarely-heard music.
Our first programme of the 2024 celebrates the airs of Michel Lambert (1610 – 1696) and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), and the music written by their contemporaries for the viol, culminating in a rare performance of Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles (The Pleasures of Versailles).
Programme
Michel Lambert: Sans murmurer
Vous mepris chaque jour
Ombre de mon amant
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Quel prix de mon amour
Sans frayeur dans ce bois
Le Sieur De Machy: Prelude in D minor from Pieces de viole
Marin Marais: Prelude in G major (pieces de viole, livre III) and
Chaconne in G major (livre v)
Caix d’Hervelois: Plainte from pieces de viole
Antoine Forqueray: La Couperin
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Les Plaisirs de Versailles
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