BBC Proms 2020 Season - French Baroque gems from Les Talens Lyriques [2011] (320kbps .mp3)

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

BBC Proms: Christophe Rousset’s supremely elegant ensemble, which has been breathing new life into the rich legacy of the French Baroque for nearly 30 years, presented a programme at the 2011 Proms that fell squarely into the Gallic tradition but with influences from across the Alps. The programme includes music from Couperin’s colourful Les nations and Rameau’s delicately poised Pièces de clavecin en concerts.

Less familiar may be the eloquent cantata telling the story of Lucretia and her suicideby Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, an important musical figure in the period between Lully and Rameau, who counted Couperin’s daughters among his pupils.

01. Couperin - Les nations – La piemontaise
01a. Introduction to the French Baroque prom
02. Lully - Les amours déguisés – ‘Ah Rinaldo, e dovè sei?’
02a. Introduction to Lully
03. Rameau - Pièces de clavecin en concerts – Premier concert
03a. Introduction to Rameau
04. Montéclair - Cantata ‘Morte di Lucretia’
04a. Introduction to Montéclair

Eugénie Warnier (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord/director)

Introduced by Catherine Bott.


(From BBC Proms, 1 August 2011)