Arion Orchestre Baroque and The World of Thomas Dunford… From The 16th to The 20th Century!

Interview by Alain Brunet
Genres and styles : Baroque / Early Music / Modern Classical

Additional Information

This weekend, Arion Orchestre Baroque welcomes French lute virtuoso and guest conductor Thomas Dunford. A French citizen with Franco-American roots, Thomas Dunford is unique in his ability to blend early and Baroque music with modern repertoire, from the Beatles to Leonard Bernstein, as well as composing and performing original material of his own. The program concocted for the two performances at Salle Bourgie covers 4 centuries of Western music, from English lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563-1626) to Berstein (1918-1990), via Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759). Brilliant, don’t you think? Experience it in real time before you decide: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 2:30 p.m., at Salle Bourgie. For a preview, watch this conversation with bassoonist and maestro Mathieu Lussier, artistic director of Arion Orchestre Baroque, interviewed by Alain Brunet.

INFOS AND TICKETS HERE

PROGRAM:



John Dowland
“Come Again” from First Book of Songs or Ayres
Lachrimae
King of Denmark’s Galliard
“Now, O, now, I needs must part” from First Book of Songs or Ayres

Henry Purcell
The Fairy-Queen, Z.629 (excerpts)
“When I am laid in earth” (Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626)

Georg Frideric Handel
Suite nº 4 in en ré mineur, HWV 437 (excerpts)
“Guardian Angels” (The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71)
“No, no I’ll take no less” (Semele, HWV 58)

Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story (extraits)

ARTISTES:

THOMAS DUNFORD:  luth and direction
MARIANNE LAMBERT soprano

Arion Orchestre Baroque

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