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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)
Solomon's Knot Productions Ltd. Registered in England & Wales as a company (no.6755687) and a charity (no.1129898).