2007 FESTIVAL
Operatic Centerpiece
Music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Libretto by Thomas Corneille (1625-1709)
Festival Concerts
The King’s Noyse directed by David Douglass
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
directed by Dominique Visse
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
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus
directed by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs
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
directed by Benjamin Bagby
The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Reveng
from the Medieval Icelandic Edda
Ensemble Clément Janequin
directed by Dominique Visse
Le Chant des Oyseaulx: Renaissance birdsongs and songs of spring
Nachtmusique
directed by Eric Hoeprich
Harmoniemusik: Works by Mozart, Duvernoy,
Kreutzer, Weyse, and Beethoven
Le Poème Harmonique
directed by Vincent Dumestre
Aux Marches du Palais: Traditional French romances and laments
Tragicomedia and Friends
directed by Stephen Stubbs
Welcome to All the Pleasures: Music Purcell,
Corbetta, Lully, Matteis, Locke, and Rossi
The Royal Wind Music
directed by Paul Leenhouts
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
