European Union Baroque Orchestra: « Danse des Zéphyrs »

Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Director & Harpsichord
Zefira Valova – Concertmaster

Programme
Jean-Féry Rebel – Les Elémens
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Pour un reposoir, H508
Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Opéra suite « Danse des Zéphyrs »

The opening of "Les Elémens", Rebel’s best known work (1737) is the most startling in all baroque music. The composer said that “The introduction… is Chaos itself, the confusion that reigned between the Elements before the instant when, obeying unchanging laws, they had taken the places assigned to them in the Natural order.” To illustrate this, the orchestra plays every note of the D minor scale simultaneously, eventually resolving to a single note representing Earth. The elements are represented in the dances: Water and Earth in the Loure; Air in the Ramage, and Fire in the Chaconne. Les "Caractères de la Danse" is a ballet suite remarkable for its survey of different dance forms – 11 in all – which flash past often in a matter of seconds. "Danse des Zéphyrs" includes some of the finest and most colourful movements from Rameau’s opera "Les Boréades".

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