An educational programme with early music. Cantates Comiques; comical French baroque cantatas and concertos.
Comical cantatas were a new genre at the court of Louis XIV and would become very beloved at the court of Louis XV.
It was an amalgamation of French and Italian music (les Goûts-Réunies) with a lot of satire.
Humor was a big part of art and literature at the time. It was indeed during that time (around 1710) that the cantata ‘Dom Quichotte’ was written as a parody on the book ‘Don Quichotte’.
1. Pierre de La Garde (1717-ca.1792).
Cantate ‘La Sonate’.
– [-].
– N’admires vous pas ce tableau…
– Ainsi par des dons tout s’exprime…
2. Michel Corrette (1707-1795).
Concerto comique V ‘La Femme est un grand embarras’.
– Adagio.
– Allegro.
3. Nicolas de Grandval (1676-1753).
Cantate ‘La Matrone d’Ephese’.
– [-].
– Un autre mort en grand silence…
– Vous êtes mon vainqueuer…
– Qu’entends-je!…
4. Michel Corrette.
Concerto comique XXIV ‘La Marche du Huron’.
– Amorozo.
– Allegro.
5. Philippe Courbois (1705-1730).
Cantate ‘Dom Quichotte’.
– [-].
– Air: Loin des yeux qui m’ont fait captif.
– Signalons sur ces monts.
– Le fameux chevalier a la triste figure.
Dominique Visse, countertenor.
Café Zimmerman: Pablo Valetti, violin. Diana Baroni, flute. David Plantier, violin. Petr Skalka, violoncello. Guido Balestracci, viola da gamba. Eric Bellocq, lute and baroque guitar. Céline Frisch, harpsichord and organ.
(CD ALPHA 151, 2009)
Café Zimmerman with Dominique Visse
