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Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
400, rue Saint-Paul Est
Montréal, H2Y 1H4
Bus : 170, 30, 350, 355, 364, 365
Métro : Champs-de-Mars
A voice, a bass viol, and a harpsichord—all that was needed to entertain music-lovers frequenting Parisian salons at the dawn of the 18th century, where they could delight in expressively titled instrumental pieces and cantatas, delicately evoking love in all its various facets. In these pieces, listeners could doubtless recognize their own amorous feelings, musically rendered in the most gallant fashion…
Works by de Montéclair, Forqueray, Clérambault, Couperin and Rameau
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737)
Cantate La Badine for soprano and continuo
Antoine Forqueray (1672-1744)
Chaconne La Buisson for viol and continuo
Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)
Cantate L’Amour piqué par une abeille for soprano and continuo
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Harpsichord’s piece Les Ombres errantes
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Cantate L’Ímpatience for soprano, viol and continuo
Andréanne Brisson-Paquin, soprano
Rafael Sánchez Guevara, viola da gamba
Christophe Gauthier, harpsichord