2007 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
Psyché
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Libretto by Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) | Learn more »
Festival Concerts:
The King’s Noyse
David Douglass, director
Le Jardin de Mélodies: Songs and dances of 16th century Paris
Philippe Pierlot, bass viol
Jan Willem Jansen, harpsichord
Les Festes Galantes: Marin Marais, C. P. E. Bach, and Louis Couperin
Ensemble Clément Janequin
Dominique Visse, director
Les Plaisirs du Palais: A palindromic banquet of Franco-Flemish music
Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
Feast of the Gods: Music of Mozart, Tubel, and Pachelbel
The Orlando Consort
The Rose, the Lily, and the Whortleberry: Medieval and Renaissance musical representations of gardens and horticulture
BEMF Orchestra and Chorus
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, director
Feast of the Gods: Music of Rameau and Eccles
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Ambrosia and Nectar: Women in Baroque England
Petra Müllejans, violin
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Mozart à Due: Sonatas for violin and piano
Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby, director
The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Reveng from the Medieval Icelandic Edda
Ensemble Clément Janequin
Dominique Visse, director
Le Chant des Oyseaulx: Renaissance birdsongs and songs of spring
Nachtmusique
Eric Hoeprich, director
Harmoniemusik: Works by Mozart, Duvernoy, Kreutzer, Weyse, and Beethoven
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, director
Aux Marches du Palais: Traditional French romances and laments
Tragicomedia and Friends
Stephen Stubbs, director
Welcome to All the Pleasures: Music Purcell, Corbetta, Lully, Matteis, Locke, and Rossi
The Royal Wind Music
Paul Leenhouts, director
The Gods’ Flute Heaven: Consort music fromthe Spanish Netherlands after 16th- and 17th-century collections
North German Organ Mini-Festival
featuring William Porter and Jan Willem Jansen