“I plainly saw by the most violent applause a ravished audience could bestow, that it was quite what their hearts felt, and their souls loved.”
So wrote the English journalist Charles Burney of the audience on hearing a grand motet by Lalande in Paris in 1770. No one embraced choral music more exuberantly than the French in the 17th and 18th centuries, not only in the church, but also in the opera theatre and the concert hall. Composers and audiences alike understood the power of combined voices to express the full range of the human experience.
Choir Director Ivars Taurins has assembled a sumptuous repast of music for choir and orchestra, both sacred and secular, that explores the intimacy and grandeur of expressions of faith, love, grief, passion, and of the natural world. Join us for a feast of baroque music by Lully, Charpentier, Campra, Lalande, Mondonville, and Rameau.
