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General Public: $44

Museum member: $38

34 and under: $23

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Bourgie Hall presents

La Rêveuse Ensemble Concert of the Birds

Baroque Music

Inspired by the human fascination with birdsong, this programme brings into dialogue works from the 17th to 20th centuries, merging science, nature, and culture.

General Public: $44

Museum member: $38

34 and under: $23

Tuesday April 18, 2023 at 07:30 pm

ARTISTS

Sébastien Marq, recorders and flageolets
Florence Bolton, basse de viole and pardessus de viole
Benjamin Perrot, theorbo
Jean-Miguel Aristizabal, harpsichord

PROGRAMME

WILLIAMS / ORME
Sonata In Imitation Of Several Birds
VAN EYCK
Engels Nachtegaeltje [Little English Nightingale]
PURCELL
The Birds, from The Fairy Queen
SCHWARZKOPF
Sonata all’imitazione del Rossignolo e del Cucco
F. COUPERIN
Le Rossignol en amour [transcr. for recorder and theorbo]
Les Fauvettes plaintives [transcr. for recorder, pardessus de viole and harpsichord]
CAIX D’HERVELOIS
La Sauterelle
Le Papillon
F. COUPERIN
Les Sylvains [transcr. for theorbo by Robert de Visée]
DE BOUSSET
Pourquoi doux rossignol [instrumental version by Michel Blavet]
CORRETTE
Le Coucou
SAINT-SAËNS
Le Coucou au fond des bois, from The Carnival of the Animals [arr. Vincent Bouchot]
BRITTEN
Cuckoo, from the Friday Afternoons [arr. Vincent Bouchot]
RAMEAU
La Poule
SAINT-SAËNS
Poules et coqs, from The Carnival of the Animals [arr. Vincent Bouchot]
RAVEL
Laideronnette impératrice des pagodes, from Ma Mère L’Oye [arr. Vincent Bouchot]

See the details here.

Picture : Alexandre-François Desportes, Oiseaux exotiques, 1734, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.

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