Claude Vignon: Cléopâtre se donnant la mort (17e siècle).

Concert Program

“Fortune & Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France” 

Concert Program 

Martin Segal Theatre

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

6:00 pm

Admission: Free 

La Musique de la Reine 

Sopranos: Brooke Bryant and Brett Umlauf

Baroque Violin: Chern Hwei Fung

Basse de Viole: Virginia Kaycoff

Harpsichord: Desmond Hosford

Le Tombeau de Monsieur de Blancrocher                                                                     Louis Couperin                 
Chaconne « La Complaignante »                                                                                   (ca.1626-1661)
     solo harpsichord

La Mort de Didon                                                                                                   Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
     cantata for soprano, violin, and continuo                                                                (bapt. 1667-1737)

INTERMISSION

Médée                                                                                                                          Jacques Duphly
     solo harpsichord                                                                                                       (1715-1789)

Pyrame et Thisbé                                                                                                        Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
     cantata for soprano, violin, flute, and continuo                                                             (1676-1749)