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Jean Rondeau
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Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Jean Rondeau harpsichord
Programme & Song Text
Date
Fri 04 Oct 2024, 7.30pm
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Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

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Important Information

Slight Change of Programme

The programme for this concert has slightly changed and is now as below.

Artists

  • Jean Rondeauharpsichord

Programme

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    1683-1764
      • Premier livre de pièces de clavecin
        :
      • Prélude in A minor
      • Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
        :
      • Allemande
      • Courante
      • Sarabande
      • Les trois mains
      • Gavotte et 6 doubles
  • François Couperin
    1668-1733
      • L'art de toucher le clavecin
        :
      • Prélude No. 1 in C
      • La ténébreuse
      • La lugubre
      • La favorite

Overview

The French harpsichordist, suggested The Washington Post, ‘is a master of his instrument with the sort of communicative gifts normally encountered in musicians twice his age. He internalizes the music he plays so completely that any interpretative ambivalence or miscalculation is unthinkable’. Jean Rondeau names his programme after a well-known piece with an enigmatic title by François Couperin, whose music features alongside that of Rameau and Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c.1705-55), members of a younger generation of Couperin’s colleagues.

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