William Christie was already manning the barricades of early music in the middle of the last century. The driving force behind Les Arts Florissants is now 80, but still unrivalled on the historic keyboard. Along with Langlois de Swarte, already one of the most impressive violinists of his generation, he will treat us to a selection from the work of two monumental Baroque composers: Jean-Philippe Rameau, the superstar of the French golden age, and George Frideric Handel, who singly embodies the variety and universal appeal of the Baroque. “The grand master and the prodigy deliver virtuosity and pure poetry”, was Classica magazine’s verdict on Générations, their first joint project. It earned these consummate musicians a much-coveted CHOC and a nudge in the direction of Générations, Bis.
Program
Transcriptions of opera arias and sonatas for the violin and harpsichord by J-P. Rameau, G.F. Handel and others
Performers
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin | William Christie, harpsichord
