Event Concerts and Performances Live! at the Library: Le Consort

Date and Location

  • When: Thursday, February 29, 2024

    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST

  • Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium (LJG45A)

    10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress ; Live at the Library

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Musicians
August McKay Lodge, violin
Sophie de Bardonnèche, violin
Hanna Salzenstein, cello
Justin Taylor, harpsichord

Le Consort’s four charismatic players have already achieved star status in the world of early music, earning accolades for “audacity, brilliance and... jubilant virtuosity” (Diapason d’Or). Making their first American tour, they offer a well-informed travelogue pairing music by Baroque masters including J.S. Bach and Jean-Philippe Rameau with pieces by composers less well known today, among them a recently unearthed violin sonata by a Vivaldi contemporary, Giovanni Battista Reali. And the evening will feature two magnificent settings of a centuries-old favorite, La Follia, perhaps the Baroque era’s most recognizable melody and one that still captivates today.

Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists: 6:30 p.m., Whittall Pavilion.

Schedule

Program 

ANTONIO VIVALDI 
Trio Sonata in G minor, op. 1/1, RV73 

GIOVANNI BATTISTA REALI 
Violin Sonata in C major, op. 2/1: Grave 

ARCANGELO CORELLI 
Trio Sonata in C major, op. 4/1 

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU 
Gavotte et ses doubles from Les Indes galantes 

JEAN-FRANÇOIS DANDRIEU 
Trio Sonata in G minor, op. 1/3 

REALI 
“La Folia,” op. 1/12 

NICOLA MATTEIS, JR. 
Sarabanda Amorosa 

HENRY PURCELL 
Sonata of Four Parts in G minor, Z.807 

J.S. BACH
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV 1038 

ALESSANDRO MARCELLO / J. S. BACH 
Concerto in D minor, BWV974: Andante 

ANTONIO VIVALDI 
Trio Sonata in D minor (“Follia”), op. 1/12, RV63 

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