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Kent Sweitzer

Marc Destrubé and Kangwon Kim (from left, in the foreground) and members of the Madison Bach Musicians.

Marc Destrubé and Kangwon Kim (from left, in the foreground) and members of the Madison Bach Musicians.

In their season opener, Madison Bach Musicians explore the question “what does it mean to sound French?” The program “The French Baroque Style” features works by J.S. Bach, André Campra, François Couperin, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, with violinist Marc Destrubé leading the MBM ensemble along with flute soloist Immanuel Davis and soprano Sarah Brailey. Concerts are at 8 p.m. on Sept. 28 and 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, with lectures 45 minutes prior

media release: The French Baroque Style

September 28-29, Holy Wisdom Monastery, 4200 County Road M, Middleton

Saturday: Lecture 7:15 pm, concert 8 pm; Sunday: Lecture 2:45 pm, concert 3:30 pm.

Single ticket prices are:

In-person tickets (including on-demand access to the concert recording through October 12)

    $40 — In-person concert attendance purchased in advance; seniors at the door

    $43 — In-person general concert attendance purchased at the door 

    $10 — Student rush in-person attendance purchased at the door, if available

Livestream only tickets — $25 (available on-demand through October 12)

PROGRAM

 Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 – 1687)

 Suite from Les Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)   [10’]

                        - Movements tbc

François Couperin (1668 - 1733) from L'Apothéose de Lully (1725): Concert instrumental sous le titre d'Apothéose composé à la mémoire immortelle de l'incomparable Monsieur de Lully (Instrumental concert titled ‘Apotheosis composed to the immortal memory of the incomparable Monsieur de Lully’)   [13’]

             - Lully in the Elysian Fields performing with the Lyric Shadows

            - Air for them

            - Mercury flies to the Elysian Fields to warn of Apollo's impending descent

            - Descent of Apollo, who comes to offer his violin to Lully and a place on Parnassus

            - Subterranean rumblings by Lully's contemporaries

            - Their Lamentations, for flutes or very muted violins

            - The Ascension of Lully to Parnassus

André Campra (1660 - 1744) 

 Suite from ‘L’Europe Galante’ (1697)               [16’]

             - Ouverture

            - ‘Paisibles lieux, agréables retraites’

            - Marche

            - ‘Mes yeux, ne pourrez-vous jamais’

            - Passacaille

                         intermission

 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

 Suite in b minor for flute, strings and basso continuo, BWV 1067 (1739)

            - Ouverture

            - Rondeau

            - Sarabande

            - Bourrée I-II

            - Polonaise

            - Menuet

            - Badinerie

Jean-Philippe Rameau  (1683 - 1764)

 Suite from ‘Les Indes Galantes’ (1735) [20’]

             - Air pour les Guerriers Portans les Drapeaux

            - Air pour les amants qui suivent Bellone, et pour les amantes qui tachent de les retenir

            - Air pour les Bostangis

            - Air tendre pour la Rose - Rondeau

            - “Vous, qui d’Hebé suivez les loix…”

            - Gavotte pour les Fleurs

            - Air pour Borée et la Rose

            - “Amour, Amour, quand du destin…”

            - Entrée des Sauvages