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Danse des Zéphyrs
Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen (DK)
Concertmaster Zefira Valova (BG)
Performance dates 19-29 July and 3-4 November
| JF REBEL | Les Élémens |
| MA CHARPENTIER | Pour un reposoir H508 |
| JF REBEL | Les Caractères de la Danse |
| JPh RAMEAU | Opera Suite “Danse des Zéphyrs” |
The opening of Les Elémens, Rebel’s best known work (1737) is the most startling in all baroque music. The composer said that ‘The introduction…is Chaos itself, the confusion that reigned between the Elements before the instant when, obeying unchanging laws, they had taken the places assigned to them in the Natural order’. To illustrate this, the orchestra plays every note of the D minor scale simultaneously, eventually resolving to a single note representing Earth. The elements are represented in the dances: Water and Earth in the Loure; Air in the Ramage, and Fire in the Chaconne. Les Caractères de la Danse is a ballet suite remarkable for its survey of different dance forms – 11 in all – which flash past often in a matter of seconds. Danse des Zéphyrs includes some of the finest and most colourful movements from Rameau’s opera Les Boréades.
Baroque Splash!
Director Margaret Faultless (UK)
Concertmaster Mechthild Karkow (DE)
Performance dates 5-16 September
| GPh TELEMANN | Wassermusik “Hamburger Ebb und Fluth” |
| JS BACH | Orchestral Suite No 4 BWV1069 (original version) |
| GF HANDEL | Water Music Suite (selection) |
Corelli’s Legacy
Director Riccardo Minasi (IT)
Concertmaster Kinga Ujszászi (HU)
Performance dates 12-17 October
| P CASTRUCCI | Concerto grosso in D Op 3 No 12 |
| G MOSSI | Concerto grosso in e minor Op 4 No 11 |
| G VALENTINI | Concerto for 4 violins, viola and cello in a minor Op 7 No 11 |
| AM MONTANARI | Concerto grosso in A |
| A CORELLI | Concerto grosso Op 6 No 11 in B flat |
| G VISCONTI | Concerto for two violins in B flat |
| F GEMINIANI | Concerto grosso in d minor after Corelli Op 5 No 12 'Follia’ |
All Roads Lead to Rome
Director Lars Ulrik Mortensen (DK)
Concertmaster Bojan Čičić (HR)
Performance dates 9-17 November
| G MUFFAT | Sonata II in g minor from Armonico Tributo |
| GF HANDEL | Ouverture in B flat HWV 336 |
| GF HANDEL | Sonata a5 in B flat HWV288 |
| A CORELLI | Concerto Grosso in D Op 6 No 4 |
| A CORELLI | Concerto Grosso in c minor Op 6 No 3 |
| G MUFFAT | Sonata V in G from Armonico Tributo |
Myth and Magic
Director Paul Agnew (UK)
Tenor Reinhoud van Mechelen (BE)
Concertmaster Huw Daniel (UK)
with singers
Performance dates 3-16 December
| H PURCELL | The Fairy Queen (extracts) |
| JPh RAMEAU | Pigmalion |
