Bourgie Hall presents

Près de votre oreille Ensemble – Blessed Echoes

With “Blessed Echoes,” the ensemble Près de votre oreille takes us on an exploration of the treasures of Elizabethan vocal music. An authentic incursion into the lute song genre of music that was highly prized in this period.

Artists
Près de votre oreille Ensemble
In 2017, Robin Pharo officially created the ensemble Près de votre oreille on the occasion of the Festival of Early Music in Timisoara, Romania, around a program devoted to the work for two viols by Marin Marais and Descent of Orpheus to the Underworld by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Près de votre oreille – Close to your ear – is a concept that is particularly close to his heart. By its strangeness and its poetry, it has imposed itself as the singular identity of a young ensemble which wishes to share the curiosity of unusual antique jewellery. Following an original passion, the ensemble strives to create projects related to the history of the viola da gamba, which allows its artistic director to share both his love of the solo repertoire and that of chamber music.

The ensemble has performed in prestigious places in France such as the Saintes festival, Les Musicales de Normandie, Embaroquemment Immédiat festival,  the Clos-Lucé Castle, the Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay, Sablé festival, Misummer festival, Lille Opera house, Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay, Sablé festival, La Scala Paris, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and Grévin Museum theater in Paris (Philippe Maillard Production), Rencontres Musicales du Trégor, Rencontres Musicales de Bel-Air or the Baroque festival in Tarentaise, and abroad, the Nasz Telemann festival in Poland, La Folia in Switzerland, the Max festival and Rencontres Musicales du Hainaut in Belgium. In 2024, ensemble Près de votre oreille will perform at Ambronay festival, Lanvellec festival and abroad at Warsaw Philharmonic in Poland, at La Valette baroque festival in Malta and in Canada, at salle Bourgie in Montreal, at Early Music in Vancouver and at Isabel Bader Center in Kingston.

Anaïs Bertrand, mezzo-soprano
Nicolas Kuntzelmann, countertenor
François-Olivier Jean, tenor
Cyril Costanzo, bass
Robin Pharo, viola da gamba and director
Marion Martineau, viola da gamba
Simon Waddell, Renaissance lute and cittern
Ronan Khalil, virginal

Program
CAVENDISH Wandring in this place (excerpt from Ayres in Tabletorie to the lute)
CAMPION Never weather-beaten sail (excerpt from The First Booke of Ayres)
ROSSETER When Laura Smiles (excerpt from A Book of Ayres)
Robin PHARO
Réversibilité, song for 4 voices and guitar on a poem by Charles Baudelaire
DOWLAND
Go Crystal teares (excerpt from The First Booke of Songes or Ayres)
Can she excuse my wrongs (excerpt from The First Booke of Songes or Ayres)
Farewell Fantasie
FERRABOSCO
Like Hermit poore (excerpt from Ayres)
Almain II
Coranto I
JONES
Lie down poor heart (excerpt from A Musicall Dreame)
If in this Flesh (excerpt from A Musicall Dreame)
What if I seeke for love (excerpt from The First Booke of Songes)
Once did I serve a cruel heart (excerpt from A Musicall Dreame)
FORD
Excerpts from Musicke of Sundrie Kindes
A Pavin, Sir Richard Westons delight
How shall I then describe my love
Not full twelve yeeres twice tolde
A Pavin, M Maines Choice

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 7:30pm
To purchase your tickets, visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/