Internationally renowned flautist Maurice Steger is back in Montreal and conducts Les Violons du Roy’s first concert of 2020, the theme of which is England. Among the works on the program are Henry Purcell’s Chaconne in G Minor and Curtain Tune on a Ground, from his opera Timon of Athens. In their own way, these two works are marked by a certain tragic anguish, a restlessness tempered by the sweetness and lightness of Georg Friedrich Handel’s recorder concerto in F major, after HWV 369, or Gottfried Finger’s A Ground. The ensemble also presents excerpts from Handel’s dance suites HWV 1, 287 and 399, William Babell’s recorder concerto in D major, Op. 3 No. 1, and the recorder concerto in G major after Francesco Geminiani’s Sonata Op. 5 No. 11.
PROGRAM
Les Violons du Roy
Maurice Steger: conductor and recorder player
Handel: Dance Suite, from HWV 1, 287 and 399
Handel: Concerto for Recorder in F major, after Sonata HWV 369
Purcell: Curtain Tune on a Ground
Purcell: Chaconne in G minor
Finger: A Ground
Babell: Concerto for Recorder in D major, Op. 3 No. 1
Avison: Concerto grosso No. 3 for Two Violins and Cello
Geminiani: Concerto for Recorder in G major after Sonata Op. 5 No. 11
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