Ballet de la Raillerie, 1659
Ballet des Saisons, 1661
George Dandin, 1668
Cadmus, 1673
Atys, 1676
Amadis, 1684
Idylle sur la Paix, 1685
Monday's set of five suites from a remarkable and almost completely
unknown manuscript containing chamber music renditions of Louis XIV's
favorite music from the previous 5 decades of his reign is to include
include excerpts from these seven ballets and operas, along with chamber
music by Lully and the king's music librarian Philidor.
Entitled “Symphonies and Trios", the manuscript includes 67 suites of
between two and twelve movements each, often with colorful titles
representative of vocal texts. Selections from operas, ballets and other
works originally intended for a larger ensemble are here reduced for
performance by three or rarely four voices, alongside chamber music
composed originally for three instruments including several of the "trio
de la chambre" by Jean-Baptiste Lully, the king's indispensable court
composer since 1653 who had been dead already for 26 years in 1713.
Other composers such as Michel-Richard de la Lande and the music
librarian Philidor himself are represented. Each of the part books
consists of 145 manuscript pages to which is affixed the same engraved
nine pages of title page and table of contents. This exciting and
extensive new source of chamber music at the court of Louis XIV is to be
explored on the baroque instruments with which the king was familiar.
The baroque bassoon was a favored bass instrument at the court of Louis
XIV. 22 of the suites have already been performed in the last few years
by Jeffrey Cohan and colleagues for the Salish Sea Early Music Festival
and the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in Washington, DC.
Please join us!
— LITTLE EVENING CONCERT for LOUIS XIV —
Monday, January 19 at 7:00 PM
· Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon
· Y Hsuan (Ethan) Lin, baroque violin
· Vicki Gunn, baroque viola
· Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
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* Mason United Methodist Church
*/~ all concerts Mondays at 7:00 PM ~ /
2710 N. Madison Street in Tacoma
www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma
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— Suggested donation $20 to $30 —
(a free will offering; pay as you wish) • 18 and under free
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Louis XIV in Tacoma January 19
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