Sunday, January 8, 2012

Art of Interpretation and Expression

Last December 19, Emmanuele Haïm and her orchestra Le Concert d'Astrée celebrated 10 years of collaboration/activity, and for the occasion a Gala Concert took place at Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.

Happily, for us who could not attend the concert, Arte concocted 1 hour of excerpts and broadcast it last week.

Christopher Purves (L) and Anne Sofie von Otter & Philippe Jarousky (R)


I will not comment on the concert that I didn't attend but I thought I could share a couple of excerpts that are good illustration of utmost importance of the interpretative skills in making the beautiful voices reaching the spectators' hearts.

Enjoy!




Anne Sofie von Otter and Philippe Jarousky sing Son nata a lagrimar from Handel's Giulio Cesare  



Christopher Purves sings The Cold Song from Purcell's King Arthur




The third one is a Gala thing -- you will know to appreciate it for what it is:
Philippe Jarousky and Pascal Bertin sing Sound the trumpet by Henry Purcell

4 comments:

  1. I particularly love when Jaroussky sings "all ze instruments of joy"... :)

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  2. Ha! He says it twice. He nailed the first but as the South American sound was coming he lost focus. Bless him ;)

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  3. To say nothing of "ze sprightly hautboy" and "Peanuuuurts" - gotta love him!

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  4. To say nothing of "ze sprightly hautboy" and "peanuuurts" - gotta love him!

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