Pompadour's Parlour
Schedule
Thu May 16 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC+10:00Location
Tempo Rubato | Brunswick, VI
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ENSEMBLE POMPADOUR - POMPADOUR’S PARLOURTHURSDAY 16 MAY 2024 8PM
TICKETS $35 | CONCESSION $20
Nick Pollock (theorbo), Simon Rickard (baroque musette) and Laura Vaughan (treble and bass violas da gamba) are three of Australia’s leading exponents of baroque music. They share a particular love for the French baroque, and for weird and wonderful historical instruments - the more exotic the better. Ensemble Pompadour is named for Madame de Pompadour, mistress, friend and advisor to Louis XV and influential patron of the arts in Paris.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The grand operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau and virtuosic keyboard works of François Couperin are often heard on the concert platform today. Less familiar is the day-to-day music which was the aural backdrop to Versailles Palace’s glittering interiors and rambling gardens.
In this programme of music by Joseph-Bodin de Boismortier, Michel Corrette, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray and Robert de Visee, Ensemble Pompadour explore this charming, but little-heard repertoire, once played in private apartments on the most fashionable instruments of their day - the viola da gamba, theorbo, and the baroque musette, a tiny, bijou bagpipe made for playing indoors. This delightful French baroque repertoire is routinely overlooked today, because it was domestic music, played by highly skilled amateurs in their private apartments or the gardens of Versailles palace. In the eighteenth century, if you wanted to hear music, you didn’t simply stream it on your phone, you had to actually play the music for yourself.
This concert is a rare opportunity to hear these rare instruments playing this rarely-heard repertoire. Don’t expect musical fireworks; this is music for the enjoyment of a few selected friends to enjoy in private. This May, Ensemble Pompadour invites you into our inner circle to be charmed by these intimate strains.
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Where is it happening?
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese Street,Melbourne,VIC,Australia, BrunswickEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
