As part of the 10th Music and History Festival for Intercultural Dialogue, under the direction of Jordi SAVALL, the Concert des Nations performs works by Marin Marais, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean Philippe Rameau, Matthew Locke, Antonio Vivaldi, and Jean Fery Rebel .
The 17th century saw the dawn of a new aesthetic in musical writing, which proposed to vividly illustrate ideas and feelings by seeking their equivalent in sounds and making them perceptible to the public. Music sought to recreate images and to paint through sounds and even noises what nature produced in suggestive realism. As a result, vocal repertoires and instrumental forms of "descriptive sinfonias " or "representative concerts" developed throughout the Baroque and Classic period.
For this concert, our "artists" are: Marin Marais (extracts from the musical tragedy Alcione) G. Ph Telemann (Water Music Suite), J. Ph Rameau (Storms, Thunder and Earthquakes), M. Locke (music for The Tempest), A. Vivaldi (La tempesta di Mare) and Jean-Fery Rebel, who started "the representation of chaos" in 1737 in his ballet The Elements.
A concert recorded at the Fontfroide Abbey, Narbonne.
