Calendar - Affetto e Affetti

Back

Affetto e Affetti
Festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie 2023

Cast

William CHRISTIE, clavecin
Emmanuel RESCHE-CASERTA, violin

Program

Isabella LEONARDA - Sonata a violino solo Opus 16 in D minor

Giovanni Antonio PANDOLFI - Capriccetto Il Catalano

Giovanni Antonio PANDOLFI - Capriccetto Il Raimondo

Arcangelo CORELLI - Sonata 3 Opus 5 in C major

Elisabeth-Claude JACQUET DE LA GUERRE - Sonata 1 in D minor

Antonio VERACINI - Sonata VI, from the Sonate Accademiche Opus 2

François COUPERIN - Premier Concert Royal

Violinist Emmanuel Resche-Caserta has become a well-known figure in Les Arts Florissants since his encounter with the ensemble while still a student at the Juilliard School in New York. Today he is William Christie's first violinist and musical assistant, and this is the first time he shares the stage as soloist with the maestro, in this program that fully highlights the complicity of their instruments... and of their artistic personalities.

Affetto e affetti: these words, which could be translated as "tenderness and passions", describe well the qualities that the violin expresses marvelously in the Italian sonatas, since their appearance at the beginning of the XVIIth century. This capacity to express affects - from the greatest gentleness, in the Adagio affettuoso movements, to the most violent fury of the allegro - fascinated (and frightened) the French. But with the publication of Arcangelo Corelli's sonatas in 1700, they also discovered a more polished, more classical violin, whose style was better suited to their own instrumental music.

It is therefore the Italian-French epic of these composers that this program illustrates, from the last burning sparks of the Seicento, with Isabella Leonarda and Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi, to the dramatic excesses of Veracini, which contrast with the divinely Arcadian atmosphere of Corelli, also present in the works of his first French admirers, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and François Couperin.

And after the concert, do not miss the "Meditation at the Dawn of Night" (included in the ticket)!