Here is a truly rare event: three days following the concert by Les Arts Florissants at the Amphitheatre, their founder and musical director William Christie joins their new concertmaster, cherished by the European Baroque milieu, crowned Révélation at France’s Victoires de la musique classique, for an intimate recital in one of our most beautiful churches. The master and his disciple invite us to experience the spellbinding sonatas of Leclair and his contemporary Senaillé, and to take part in a prodigious Baroque feast.
George Frideric Handel, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D major, HWV 371
Jean-Baptiste Senaillé,
Sonata for Violin No. 5 in C minor (Book I)
Sonata for Violin No. 6 in G minor (Book I)
Sonata for Violin No. 10 in D major (Book III)
Sonata for Violin No. 5 in E minor (Book IV)
Jean-Marie Leclair,
Sonata for Violin No. 5 in A major (Book I)
Sonata for Violin No. 2 in F major (Book II)
Sonata for Two Violins No. 5 in E minor, Op. 3 (excerpt, transcription)
Arcangelo Corelli,
Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 5 No. 12, “La Folia”