The choir plans to perform The four seasons by the famous French composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, a baroque score from the 17the century evoking the variation in the behavior of love between seasons.
It’s Christmas before time. The town hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine invites, this Saturday, December 21 in its Town Hall, the public to come and attend a free performance by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Versailles. On the program, the choir promises to play a baroque piece: The four seasons by the famous French composer of the 18th centurye century, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
A fairly unprecedented phenomenon, because this title composed in 1724 – presented as a cycle of four French-style cantatas, for solo voice, mixed with symphony – is a work rarely performed in public. But to properly welcome winter, the Versailles orchestra wanted to tackle the task and pay tribute to the artist who died in 1755.
Orchestral masterpiece
This anthology of French music brings together all the themes and musical genres popular between the end of the 16the century and the middle of the 18th centurye century. In general, the orchestra plays it in a sort of small opera, to keep the traditions of the time. This is how Boismortier’s score then unfolds: Spring makes love reign, Summer said to him: “Moderate yourself, friend! », Autumn by watering it warms it night and day, et Winter supports him with good food.
And to interpret it as faithfully as possible, Parisian harpsichordist Chloé de Guillebon, first prize in the Pesaro international competition and first prize in the Lauxmin international competition in Vilnius in 2020, will conduct the Opera Orchestra of Versailles. At her side, the Basque and Occitan soprano Lili Aymono and the baritone Igor Bouin, originally from Boulogne-sur-Mer in Pas-de-Calais, will provide the singing parts.
A « abandoned mine »
The four seasons by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was composed only a year after the timeless violin concerto, The Four Seasons , by Antonio Vivaldi (1723) – the Italian music composer’s most famous work. But that doesn’t make it any less admirable. Boismortier said it himself: « someone who would take the trouble to search this abandoned mine could find enough flakes to form an ingot ».
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