FREE PERFORMANCES OF
VENUS AND ADONIS (1715)
by
J. C. PEPUSCH
23 and 26 November, U. Q. Art Museum
VENUS AND ADONIS (1715)
by
J. C. PEPUSCH
23 and 26 November, U. Q. Art Museum
J. C. Pepusch's Venus & Adonis at the UQ Art Museum
In late November this year, the Australian Research
Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions will host two
performances of Johann Christoph Pepusch's masque Venus & Adonis with
baroque orchestra at the University of Queensland. First performed to critical
acclaim at London's Theatre Royal at Drury Lane in March 1715, the work is a
setting of an English-language libretto by Colley Cibber (after Ovid). Similar
in tone and length to Handel's Acis & Galatea, this small-scale opera tells
the captivating story of the love between Venus and Adonis, and the bitter
jealousy of his rival, Mars.
The work will be performed with vocal soloists and the expanded Badinerie Players on original instruments, under the musical
direction of harpsichordist Donald Nicholson (a member of the Melbourne-based
baroque trio Latitude 47) with theatrical direction by Professor Jane Davidson
(of UWA, who has recently worked on a number of baroque operas in collaboration
with harpist Andrew Lawrence-King, including a Copenhagen production of
Monteverdi's Orfeo). The score has been edited by UQ academic (and baroque
oboist) Dr Samantha Owens from a manuscript set of parts now held in the
library of London's Royal Academy of Music, that can be traced back to a 1718
revival at the Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre.
There will be two performances, on Saturday, 23 November at
2pm and Tuesday, 26 November at 6:30pm, both at the UQ Art Museum (St Lucia
Campus). For further information, please contact Sam Owens (e-mail:
s.owens@uq.edu.au).
The Badinerie Players
A Concert of French- and Italian Style Baroque Music
ABC Sunday Live
2.45 pm, 11 August 2013
ABC Studio, 114 Grey St (Corner Russell St), South Bank, Brisbane
Suite from Le
bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
Ouverture – Air – Marche pour la
cérémonie des Turcs – Deuxième air – Troisième air – Entrée des Scaramouches,
Trivelins et Arlequin – Chaconne des Scaramouches, Trivelins et Arlequin
Sonata 14 from Sonate
concertate in stil moderno, Book 2 (1629) Dario
Castello (?–?)
Suite in A minor for recorder and strings, TWV 55:a2 Georg Philipp Telemann
(1681–1767)
Ouverture – Les Plaisirs – Air à
l’Italien – Menuet 1& 2 – Réjouissance – Passepied 1 & 2 – Polonaise
The Badinerie Players:
Recorder Sarah
Meagher
Baroque violin Margaret
Connolly, Wayne Brennan
Baroque viola Nicholas
Tomkin
Baroque cello Dan
Curro
Viola da gamba, baroque bass Michael
O’Loghlin
Harpsichord Catherine
Stirling
Percussion Nozomi
Omote
To begin, our first performance of the music from Lully's
Intermède, originally written to accompany the play by Molière. This contrasts
with the early Italian Baroque style of Castello’s sonata. Then the full
ensemble returns, welcoming recorder virtuoso Sarah Meagher as soloist in
Telemann's brilliant A Minor Suite.
A Concert of French- and Italian-Style Baroque Music
11 Petrie Street Ascot
Suite from Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
Sonata 14 from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 2 (1629) Dario Castello (?–?)
Concert 3 from Pièces de clavecin en concert (1741) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
La Lapoplinière – La Timide – 1er Tambourin – 2e Tambourin en Rondeau – 1er Tambourin
Suite in A minor for recorder and strings, TWV 55:a2 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
The Badinerie Players:
Recorder Sarah Meagher
Baroque violin Margaret Connolly, Wayne Brennan
Baroque viola Nicky Tomkin
Baroque cello Dan Curro
Viola da gamba, baroque bass Michael O’Loghlin
Harpsichord Catherine Stirling
To begin, our first performance of the music from Lully's Intermede, originally written to accompany the play by Moliere. This contrasts with the early Italian Baroque style of Castello's sonata. Rameau's Concert is a dazzling and elegant work for just harpsichord, violin and gamba. Then the full ensemble returns, welcoming recorder virtuoso Sarah Meagher as soloist in Telemann's brilliant A Minor Suite.
Map and booking details:
Map and booking details:
7.30 pm, 31 March 2013
On Easter Sunday, 31 March 2013, three of the Badineries from the 2012 performance of Der Tod Jesu will perform in a concert in the Nickson Room at UQ entitled "Le Tendre Engagement." For full details and map, please follow the link!