Description
As part of the Passions Baroques festival
40 years! To celebrate four decades of passion and excellence, the Montauban-based orchestra Les Passions, founded and conducted by Jean-Marc Andrieu, presents a journey to the heart of the Baroque era, blending instrumental elegance and lyrical expressiveness. The program will open with pieces performed by the orchestra since its inception: Purcell's Suite for Strings, The Married Beau, combining refinement and lightness in the purest English Baroque style, followed by J.S. Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord and Two Recorders, where the instruments converse with finesse and energy, between architectural rigor and freedom.
To crown this evening, a selection of Handel's most beautiful operatic arias will be performed with virtuosity by soprano Julia Wischniewski.
This concert is an invitation to celebrate the timelessness of Baroque music, whose power and modernity continue to enchant us.
PROGRAMME
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Suite for Orchestra: The Married Beau, Z. 603
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Concerto No. 6 in F Major for Harpsichord and 2 Recorders, BWV 1057
INTERMISSION
George Friedrich Handel (1685–1759)
Excerpts from Operas: Scipione, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Rinaldo, Alcina, Amadigi di Gaula
Suitable for all ages
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes with intermission
Price Category C from €18
