Friede, Freude, Frankreich mit Le Poème Harmonique

By Jens Klier, 15 January 2025

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Reviewed at Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne on 14 January 2025

Lully, Airs pour le carroussel de Monseigneur LWV 72: Sonneries pour les trompettes du Roy

Couperin, L'Art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude no. 2

Lully, Entrée pour la Maison de France

Lully, Ballet de Muses LWV 32: Les espagnols

Lully, Ballet de Muses LWV 32: Les basques

Veillot, O filii et filiae

Lully, Motet de la Paix "Jubilate Deo omnis terra" LWV77/16

Nivers, Plein jeu du troisième ton

Nivers, Récit de cromorne du troisième ton

Rossi, Sinfonia Grave

Cavalli, Magnificat, for eight voices and strings

Cavalli, Xerse: Lasciate mi morire

de Rosiers, Après une si longue guerre

Métru, Ô France

Hidalgo de Polanco, Dos zagalas venian

Charpentier, Agnus Dei

Arañés, Un sarao de la Chacona

Le Poème Harmonique

Vincent Dumestre, Conductor, Theorbo

A glimpse into grandeur: The Wedding of the Sun King

Mengguang Huang, 17th January

Le Poème Harmonique undertakes musical time-travelling from regal Versailles to vibrant Venice, where divine harmonies collide with earthly celebrations.

***11

Russia meets France: Lully’s Phaéton in Versailles

Laura Servidei, 3rd June

A successful musical production of Lully’s masterpiece with Perm Opera’s MusicAeterna chorus and orchestra, Le Poème Harmonique, and a tremendous French-Russian cast.

****1

Le Poème Harmonique dazzles with Briceño

Travis Mason, 21st October

Long-forgotten Spanish guitar music brought to life in a scintillating concert by Le Poème Harmonique at Wigmore Hall.

*****

Budapest's Early Music Festival opens with an evening of French Sacred Music

Nahoko Gotoh, 2nd March

Taking the scenic riverside tram route to Müpa in Budapest, you cannot but be impressed by the magnificent legacy of the Habsburgs in this beautiful historical city.

****1

The human comedy: Le Poème Harmonique at the Wigmore Hall

Emily Owen, 14th October

“We call you to witness that if our voices work wonders, our lutes, too, please both heart and ear”. These lines, taken from the translation of the first piece in tonight’s programme, summed up, for me, the evening. Not only did Le Poème Harmonique provide us with some truly magical singing, the instrumental group provided balance, entertainment and fun throughout.

*****

Le Poème Harmonique at Columbia University

Zerbinetta, 12th September

In his 1995 book Text and Act, the musicologist Richard Taruskin wrote of the historically-informed performance movement, “the very recent concept of historical authenticity is implicitly projected back into historical periods that never knew it.

***11

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Jens Klier

Vor seinem Rechtswissenschafts-Studium in Bayreuth und Bonn widmete sich Jens Klier seit frühester Kindheit musikalisch der Violine (Repertoire vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert). Während er zudem mit Gesang und dem Leben im Orchesterbetrieb groß wurde, entwickelte sich ein besonderes Interesse an der sogenannten 'Historischen Aufführungspraxis' und authentischen Instrumenten. Diese Leidenschaft hält sich hartnäckig, sodass er sie mit Vorliebe für das Barocke anstatt mit Finger und Bogen nun in Form der Musikkritik zu Gehör bringt. U.a. Telemann-Fan, Liebhaber J. S. Bachs Genies und Entdecker neuerer, seltenerer 'Alter Musik'.

Friede, Freude, Frankreich: Les noces royales de Louis XIV von Le Poème Harmonique