Music: Purcell, Songs and Dances

8 Place Oscar Niemeyer, Le Volcan

The Musicians of Saint-Julien join forces with countertenor Reginald Mobley to present a programme mainly secular dedicated to Henry Purcell. This revisit of the immense body of work by the 17th-century composer gently highlights about twenty instrumental pieces (O Solitude, my sweetest choice, Stricke the Viol, Chaconne…). After Ireland and Scotland, the early-music ensemble thus explores another surface of the UK map: England. While the virtuoso François Lazarevitch handles the flutes and leads the musicians with the precision of his playing…