Festival "Musique & mémoire" : Sommeils

At 9 pm, in the Basilica of St Peter and St Paul.

Sommeils.
Works by Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Henry Desmarest.

Ensemble Masques.
Philippe Gagné, tenor.
Julien Martin and Marine Sablonnière, recorder.
Sophie Gent and Tuomo Suni, violins.
Kathleen Kajioka, viola.
Mélisande Corriveau, cello.
Benoît Vanden Bemden, double bass.
Olivier Fortin, organ, harpsichord and conductor.

Scenes of sleep, dreams and slumber abound in the lyric tragedies, cantatas and instrumental pieces of the French Baroque. They employ figurative orchestrations and transport the listener into a marvellous world.

The music lulls the listener into a sense of the sweetness of falling asleep, then of the numbness that leads to sleep. A poetic wandering through drowsy musical masterpieces...

Dreamlike!

Booking recommended: 06 40 87 41 39.
Admission: €15, €12 (Musique et Mémoire members), €5 (under 18s, unemployed, RSA recipients).