Voices of Versailles

Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 5pm

This luscious French concert features the eight singers of the Yale Voxtet and the Sebastians’ core quartet of two violins, cello, and harpsichord, plus recorders, oboes, viola, violone, and theorbo. The program centers around Charpentier’s La Couronne de fleurs.

Location

Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church
152 West 66th St.
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Music

Program

Concert length: 80–90 minutes with no intermission

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
Trio Sonata No. 1 in G minor

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–87)
Regina coeli from Petits motets
Ouverture to Thésée, LWV 51

Henry Purcell (?1659–1695)
Ye tuneful Muses, Z. 344

Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747)
Les Caractères de la danse

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
La couronne de fleurs, H. 486

Performers

Margaret Owens and Geoffrey Burgess, oboe and recorder
Daniel Lee and Nicholas DiEugenio, violin
Annie Garlid, viola
Ezra Seltzer, cello
Nathaniel Chase, violone
Charles Weaver, theorbo
Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord

The Yale Voxtet
Juliet Papadopoulos and Ellen Robertson, soprano
Sandy Sharis and Veronica Roan, mezzo-soprano
Michaël Hudetz and Trevor Scott, tenor
Peter Schertz and Fredy Bonilla, baritone

Geoffrey Burgess

oboe

Nathaniel Chase

violone

Nicholas DiEugenio

violin

Annie Garlid

violin & viola

Jeffrey Grossman

harpsichord

Daniel Lee

violin

Meg Owens

oboe & recorder

Ezra Seltzer

cello

Charles Weaver

theorbo & guitar

Yale Voxtet 23-24

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