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Piety and play in Versailles
Sacred and secular works from the court of the Sun King
Add to my Calendar 09-07-2025 18:00 09-07-2025 20:00 36 Piety and play in Versailles For our Frome Festival 2025 appearance, we visit Versailles in the period of Louis XIV. Our team of 3 sopranos (Jane Hunt, Maria Danishvar, and Philippa Neaverson) explore some wonderful music by Charpentier, Lully, and Lambert who made best use of their combination of voices in both sacred and secular forms. They'll be accompanied by Din Ghani playing continuo on archlute and baroque guitar. Bar available outside the Gallery. Silk Mill Gallery, Frome DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Silk Mill Gallery
Merchants Barton
Saxonvale
Frome
Somerset
BA11 1PT
England
Programme
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Domine salvum, H.300
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Ecce panis Angelorum, H.242
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Serve bone et fidelis, H.35
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Domine quinque talenta, H.33
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Plainte d'Ariadne
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Que nos prairies
Michel Lambert – Admirons notre jeune et charmante déesse
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – O pretiosum et admirabile conviviu, H.247
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Regina coeli, H.32
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Gaudia virginus Mariae, H.59
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Ballet de la Raillerie, LWV 11
Performers
Maria Danishvar – soprano
Jane Hunt – soprano
Philippa Neaverson – soprano
Din Ghani – archlute / baroque guitar
Musicke in the Ayre
Programme Note
For our Frome Festival 2025 appearance, we visit Versailles in the period of Louis XIV. Our team of 3 sopranos (Jane Hunt, Maria Danishvar, and Philippa Neaverson) explore some wonderful music by Charpentier, Lully, and Lambert who made best use of their combination of voices in both sacred and secular forms. They'll be accompanied by Din Ghani playing continuo on archlute and baroque guitar.
Bar available outside the Gallery.
