Plaisir D’amour Ne Dure Qu’un Moment by Lambert, Michel, Couperin, Purcell, Leclair, J., Stuck, O 09 nov 2021, No (2021/2021), Diriģents Christophe Rousset, Castel Mareccio, Bolzano, Italy

This program reveals the passions of love, depicted by the two greatest masters of the court air in France and the song in England, at the end of the 17th century : Michel Lambert (ca 1610-1696) and Henry Purcell (1659-1695). The styles of each of these composers, so intimately linked to the handling of the French and English languages, find in the British mezzo-soprano Grace Durham, an ideal interpreter, with delectable diction and declamation. These pieces echo with later works from the 18th century , around another great story of passionate and unreasonable love between two sister nations of France and Italy. In addition to the essential instrumental music of François Couperin (1668-1733) and Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Christophe Rousset has chosen to highlight a delicious cantata by another supporter of Goûts reunions, less known but very also fervent: Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1680-1755).