Baroque Music French Style

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This first concert of „The Royal Musical Family” (a project of two concerts – solo and chamber musical pieces from the epoch of Louis XIV and the “Golden Age” of the British culture – the reign of Elizabeth the Great) presents the music of the French royal court during the epoch of absolutism. In this period the so-called “French style” (stile francese) is easily distinguished by its expressed vitality among the various European musical styles. Its characteristic impression, the preference towards unexpected affective twists and the drive towards the shocking and extraordinary is demonstrated with the most widely spread musical instruments of the period – traverso (Dimitre Marinkev), lute (Yavor Genov) and harpsichord (Yanko Marinov).




The French art theoretician Charles Batteux has written: “Music must be natural and simple.... Let it be alive, gentle and delicate...Absorbed by the fury of passion, there are often subtle shades, sighs, voice intonations, head movements: these are nuances that provoke, arouse and enliven the spirit.“
This is the character of the French baroque music.
Presented by Concerto Antico.

The Consort of Early Music Concerto Antico presents Renaissance and Baroque repertory with its genuine sound. We interpret the early music with the respective instruments of the age – this is one of the special characteristics of the Consort.

The program features pieces by Robert de Visee – the personal guitar and lute tutor of Louis XIV, Michel Blavet, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre and Francois Couperin.

May 23 (Friday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Tickets: 8/6 BGN

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