Haendel in Italy
From 05 May to 07 May France
Sonatas by G.F. Handel, G. Bononcini, and A. Caldara
This chamber music program brings together three major figures of European Baroque music, contemporaries and sometimes rivals, united by a shared Italian taste for expressiveness in both vocal and instrumental music.
The oboe sonatas of George Frideric Handel are presented here alongside the cello sonatas of Antonio Caldara and Giovanni Bononcini, composers who crossed paths on the great musical stages of their time in the early 18th century. In London, Vienna, and Rome, these musicians moved in circles where artistic emulation was constant, fueled by comparisons, mutual influences, and sometimes famous rivalries.
Through these sonatas, a whole art of conversation, so typical of the Baroque, unfolds: an intimate and expressive music, both sophisticated and profoundly human, which continues to move us today with its sincerity and eloquence.
This program is offered in conjunction with the concerts given on May 20 and 21 at the Rennes Opera House by Le Banquet Céleste from Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, an oratorio composed in Rome around 1707, marking a major stage in his Italian period and already foreshadowing the dramatic and expressive power of his future works composed after his arrival in London around 1710.
This chamber music program brings together three major figures of European Baroque music, contemporaries and sometimes rivals, united by a shared Italian taste for expressiveness in both vocal and instrumental music.
The oboe sonatas of George Frideric Handel are presented here alongside the cello sonatas of Antonio Caldara and Giovanni Bononcini, composers who crossed paths on the great musical stages of their time in the early 18th century. In London, Vienna, and Rome, these musicians moved in circles where artistic emulation was constant, fueled by comparisons, mutual influences, and sometimes famous rivalries.
Through these sonatas, a whole art of conversation, so typical of the Baroque, unfolds: an intimate and expressive music, both sophisticated and profoundly human, which continues to move us today with its sincerity and eloquence.
This program is offered in conjunction with the concerts given on May 20 and 21 at the Rennes Opera House by Le Banquet Céleste from Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, an oratorio composed in Rome around 1707, marking a major stage in his Italian period and already foreshadowing the dramatic and expressive power of his future works composed after his arrival in London around 1710.
