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Rebel's Les Élémens
Academy of Ancient Music
Part of the Academy of Ancient Music 2022-23 | 'Tis Nature's Voice Season
Add to my Calendar 10-11-2022 19:30 10-11-2022 21:30 36 Rebel's Les Élémens Cuckoos, nightingales, flood tides and a big bang, as Laurence Cummings conducts a virtuosic celebration of nature and music – baroque style. For the composers of the 18th century, nature wasn’t an optional extra: it was an everyday reality. So of course it found its way into their music too, and this delightful concert finds frogs and toads invading a concerto, wind instruments turning into songbirds (both caged and wild) and composers in Venice and Hamburg putting to sea on the tides of harmony. In short, all of nature is here, in music that’s alternately playful, touching and elemental in its ingenuity and power. Laurence Cummings directs soloists from within AAM, and begins with arguably the most astonishing natural wonder in all baroque music: the ear-tingling chaos with which Jean-Féry Rebel opens his suite Les Elémens. Music that was ahead of its time then – and timelier than ever today. Milton Court Concert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Milton Court Concert Hall
Silk St
Barbican
London
EC2Y 9BH
England
Programme
Jean-Féry Rebel – Les éléments
Georg Philipp Telemann – Ouverture-Suite 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth', TWV 55:C3
George Frideric Handel – Organ concerto no.13 in F major 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale', HWV 295
Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in E flat major 'La Tempesta di Mare', RV 253
Antonio Vivaldi – Flute Concerto 'Il Gardellino', RV 428
Georg Philipp Telemann – Violin Concerto 'The Frogs', TWV 51:A4
Performers
Laurence Cummings – harpsichord / organ / director
Academy of Ancient Music
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Programme Note
Cuckoos, nightingales, flood tides and a big bang, as Laurence Cummings conducts a virtuosic celebration of nature and music – baroque style.
For the composers of the 18th century, nature wasn’t an optional extra: it was an everyday reality. So of course it found its way into their music too, and this delightful concert finds frogs and toads invading a concerto, wind instruments turning into songbirds (both caged and wild) and composers in Venice and Hamburg putting to sea on the tides of harmony.
In short, all of nature is here, in music that’s alternately playful, touching and elemental in its ingenuity and power. Laurence Cummings directs soloists from within AAM, and begins with arguably the most astonishing natural wonder in all baroque music: the ear-tingling chaos with which Jean-Féry Rebel opens his suite Les Elémens. Music that was ahead of its time then – and timelier than ever today.
