Name: ‘Tis nature’s voice: Les Élémens
Start: 2022-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

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Laurence Cummings

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Organ

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Academy of Ancient Music

Barbican Centre

‘Tis nature’s voice: Les Élémens

London

United Kingdom

Milton Court Concert Hall

Cambridge

West Road Concert Hall

‘Tis nature’s voice: Les Élémens: Concert Various

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Les Élémens

Konzert für Violine, Streicher und Basso continuo A-Dur TWV 51:A4

Flute Concerto in D Major, RV 428

Violin Concerto in E-flat major, RV 253

Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 292

Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:C3 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth'

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Cuckoos, nightingales, flood tides and a big bang, as Laurence Cummings conducts the Academy of Ancient Music in a virtuosic celebration of nature and music – baroque style. 

For the composers of the 18th century, nature wasn’t an optional extra: it was an everyday reality. So of course, it found its way into their music too, and this delightful concert finds frogs and toads invading a concerto, wind instruments turning into songbirds (both caged and wild) and composers in Venice and Hamburg putting to sea on the tides of harmony. 

In short, all of nature is here, in music that’s alternately playful, touching and elemental in its ingenuity and power. Laurence Cummings directs soloists from within the AAM, and begins with arguably the most astonishing natural wonder in all baroque music: the ear-tingling chaos with which Jean-Féry Rebel opens his suite Les Élémens. Music that was ahead of its time then – and more timely than ever today.

English

‘Tis nature’s voice: Les Élémens by Rebel, Jean-Féry, Telemann, Vivaldi, Händel, From (2022/2022), Conductor Laurence Cummings, Milton Court Concert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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