Clavecin en concert: Vivaldi sacred, and secular music
Guest presenters
Antonio Vivaldi needs no introduction. Within his prolific instrumental output, his style alternates between energetic and expressive, showcasing tireless inventiveness, virtuosic composition, and meticulous attention to timbre, all of which continue to provide immediate and unadulterated pleasure. While primarily renowned as a violinist, he also extensively composed for voice, leaving behind around thirty operas, as well as a significant corpus of secular cantatas and motets. Many of the arias from these works, characterized by sensuality and often highly virtuosic composition, would have been perfectly at home on the stage.
Marianne Lambert, soprano Grégoire Jeay, flute Guillaume Villeneuve, violin Ensemble Clavecin en concert Luc Beauséjour, harpsichord, organ, and conductor
Program
VIVALDI Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G minor Concerto for Flute "Il Gardellino" "Concerto Madrigalesco" for Strings Concerto for Violin, Organ, and Strings in D minor Sinfonia "Al Santo Sepolcro" Psalm Laudate Pueri Dominum for Soprano, Flute, Strings, and Continuo
Bourgie Hall
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1339 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 2C6