Venez, Chère Ombre

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Image courtesy of Chapel of Santa Àgata

Soprano Emmanuelle de Negri and Le Consort, conducted by promising young harpsichordist Justin Taylor, invite us to enjoy the delicate, poetic world of French Baroque cantatas, a genre that reached its high point in the 18th century. The program is made up of several highly compact pieces, some lasting for just a few minutes. Despite this, they have a powerful dramatic force, expressing sentiments like love, heartbreak, tenderness, vengeance, happiness and tragedy, always overlaid by a sweet, refined, typically French sense of melancholy.

Program

• Louis-Antoine Lefebvre (c. 1700-1763): “Venez chère ombre” from Les regrets
• Michel-Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737): Plainte à deux violons / La bergère
• Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738): Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, Nos. 3, 4
• Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) : Le Sommeil d'Ulisse
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749): Sonata in G La félicité, C 52 / Léandre et Héro

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