Monday 26 August 2002 7:30 pm
In the Theatrical Style
| François Couperin (1668 – 1733) | Concert dans le goût theátral (reconstructed by Peter Holman) |
| Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (c.1690 – 1768) | Flute Concerto in E minor |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764) | Ouverture to Pygmalion |
| Jean-Féry Rebel (1666 – 1747) | Les Élémens |
| Michel Corrette (1709 – 1795) | Concerto ‘Le Phenix’ |
| Jean-Marie Leclair (1697 – 1764) | Flute Concerto in C major Op. 7 No. 3 |
- Rachel Brown Baroque flute
- Essex Baroque Orchestra
- directed by Peter Holman
Most eighteenth-century French orchestral music was written for the theatre. This programme brings together two masterpieces of the repertory, the extraordinary music Jean Féry Rebel wrote for the ballet Les élémens, depicting the creation of the world, and François Couperin’s great Concert dans le goût théatral, probably originally written for the theatre in the 1690s. It also includes flute concertos by Leclair and Buffardin and Rameau’s overture to Pigmalion.