Pour un tombeau d'Anatole
Project overview
This programme of 17th-century French and English music inspired by the fragmentary poems that Stéphane Mallarmé in memory of his son, Anatole, was conceived by joint artistic director, James Halliday.
Purcell, Charpentier, Marais, de Jeune, Janequin, Lambert and others form a musical memorial to a lost child, set within a visual context by way of projection and movement by Sven Werner.
Project repertoire & personnel
Claude le Jeune Qu'est devenu ce bel oeil
Marin Marais Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont
Michel Lambert Le repos, l'ombre, le silence
Ombre de mon amant
Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset Pourquoi, doux rossignol
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Celle qui fait tout mon tourment
Henry Purcell The Plaint (from The Fairy Queen)
Man that is born of a woman
In the midst of life we are in death
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
No stars again shall hurt you (from The Tempest)
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe Les Pleurs
Sébastien le Camus Laissez durer la nuit
Clément Janequin Toutes les nuits
soprano ~ haute-contre ~ taille ~ bass
violin ~ viola da gamba ~ theorbo/baroque guitar ~ harpsichord/organ
dancer ~ projectionist ~ lighting operator
Performance
April 2015. Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Music Easter Weekend)
This programme of 17th-century French and English music inspired by the fragmentary poems that Stéphane Mallarmé in memory of his son, Anatole, was conceived by joint artistic director, James Halliday.
Purcell, Charpentier, Marais, de Jeune, Janequin, Lambert and others form a musical memorial to a lost child, set within a visual context by way of projection and movement by Sven Werner.
Project repertoire & personnel
Claude le Jeune Qu'est devenu ce bel oeil
Marin Marais Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont
Michel Lambert Le repos, l'ombre, le silence
Ombre de mon amant
Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset Pourquoi, doux rossignol
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Celle qui fait tout mon tourment
Henry Purcell The Plaint (from The Fairy Queen)
Man that is born of a woman
In the midst of life we are in death
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
No stars again shall hurt you (from The Tempest)
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe Les Pleurs
Sébastien le Camus Laissez durer la nuit
Clément Janequin Toutes les nuits
soprano ~ haute-contre ~ taille ~ bass
violin ~ viola da gamba ~ theorbo/baroque guitar ~ harpsichord/organ
dancer ~ projectionist ~ lighting operator
Performance
April 2015. Britten Studio, Snape Maltings (Aldeburgh Music Easter Weekend)
