Name: Hail, Bright Cecilia !
Start: 2023-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Basilique Notre-Dame

Organization

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Festival International d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune

Conductor

Paul McCreesh

Others

Gabrieli Consort and Players

Singer

Zoe Brookshaw

Soprano

Mhairí Lawson

Lauren Lodge-Campbell

Tim Mead

Countertenor

Jeremy Budd

Tenor

Matthew Long

Bob Davies

Bass

Ashley Riches

soprano

Hail, Bright Cecilia !

Beaune

France

Basilique Notre-Dame

Hail, Bright Cecilia !: Let mines eyes run down with tears, Z.24 Purcell (+3 More)

Public

Let mines eyes run down with tears, Z.24

O dive custos auriacae domus, Z.504

Funeral Sentences

Ode on St Cecilia's Day

Paul Koneri

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

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Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

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Lighting designer

Makeup artist

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Orchestra Operations

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Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

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Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

In memory of Kader Hassissi, co-founder and director of the Beaune Festival, who passed away last summer at the end of the fortieth edition, Paul Mc Creesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players, faithful among the faithful to the Festival, have imagined this opening evening devoted to Purcell’s odes, a repertoire in which they are perhaps without rivals today. A time for meditation, with Let mine eyes run down with tears, one of the composer’s most profound and powerful pieces, and excerpts from the Funeral of Queen Mary, a tribute to the beloved sovereign and friend of the arts who died in her prime, and whom Purcell would follow into the grave only a few months later. But also a time for hope, for the spiritual jubilation of the arts, stronger than human finitude. Few works in the entire repertoire manage to celebrate the power of Art as dazzlingly as the Ode to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. Instruments and voices mingle in airy volutes and playful polyphony, served here by one of the most beautiful teams of soloists one could ever dream of.

English

En mémoire de Kader Hassissi, cofondateur et directeur du Festival de Beaune disparu brutalement l’été passé, à l’issue de la quarantième édition, Paul Mc Creesh et ses Gabrieli Consort and Players, fidèles parmi les fidèles à la manifestation, ont imaginé cette soirée d’ouverture consacrée aux odes de Purcell, répertoire où ils sont peut-être sans rivaux aujourd’hui. Un temps pour le recueillement, avec Let mine eyes run down with tears, l’une des pièces les plus profondes et puissantes du compositeur, et des extraits des Funérailles de la Reine Marie, hommage à la souveraine bien aimée et amie des arts fauchée dans la fleur de l’âge, que Purcell suivrait dans la tombe quelques mois plus tard seulement. Mais un temps, aussi, pour l’espérance, la jubilation spirituelle des arts plus forts que la finitude humaine. Peu d’œuvres, dans tout le répertoire, parviennent à célébrer le pouvoir de l’Art d’aussi éblouissante manière que l’Ode à la Sainte-Cécile, la patronne des musiciens. Instruments et voix se mêlent en volutes aériennes et en une polyphonie ludique, ici servies par l’une des plus belles équipes de solistes dont on puisse rêver.

français

Hail, Bright Cecilia ! by Purcell, Fri 07 Jul 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Paul McCreesh, Basilique Notre-Dame, Beaune, France

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