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Instruments of Time and Truth
Oxford’s world-class early music ensemble, Instruments of Time and Truth, present a programme of music from Paris’s eighteenth-century Concert Spirituel.
Add to my Calendar 05-07-2023 19:30 05-07-2023 21:30 36 Instruments of Time and Truth Oxford’s world-class early music ensemble, Instruments of Time and Truth, present a programme of music from Paris’s eighteenth-century Concert Spirituel. Created in 1725 to provide public musical performances on days when the opera was shut (principally around major religious festivals), the concert spirituel is one of the first public concert series in existence. Famously taking place in the evening in Tuileries Palace, these were then moved to a theatre in Paris when the royal family was confined in the Tuileries. The repertoire typically consisted of both sacred choral works and instrumental music, and included symphonies and concertos. Tonight’s programme offers a snapshot of the repertoire heard in the 1770s, including works by François Joseph Gossec, and Jean-Baptiste Davaux, and culminating in Mozart’s aptly named Paris Symphony (first performed in 1778), alongside a violin concerto by Chevalier de St Georges, performed tonight by acclaimed virtuoso Bojan Čičić. Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Dorchester Abbey
High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.31 in D major 'Paris', K.297/300a
Performers
Bojan Cicic – violin
Edward Higginbottom – Director
Instruments of Time and Truth
Programme Note
Oxford’s world-class early music ensemble, Instruments of Time and Truth, present a programme of music from Paris’s eighteenth-century Concert Spirituel. Created in 1725 to provide public musical performances on days when the opera was shut (principally around major religious festivals), the concert spirituel is one of the first public concert series in existence. Famously taking place in the evening in Tuileries Palace, these were then moved to a theatre in Paris when the royal family was confined in the Tuileries. The repertoire typically consisted of both sacred choral works and instrumental music, and included symphonies and concertos.
Tonight’s programme offers a snapshot of the repertoire heard in the 1770s, including works by François Joseph Gossec, and Jean-Baptiste Davaux, and culminating in Mozart’s aptly named Paris Symphony (first performed in 1778), alongside a violin concerto by Chevalier de St Georges, performed tonight by acclaimed virtuoso Bojan Čičić.
