The 2012 Pacific Baroque Festival
“Discover the musical brilliance of Versailles and beyond.”
The French court at the time of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was an age of artistic splendour, with lavish spectacles and musical entertainments, and richly instrumented music for the church and Parisian concert life. To further his political ends, Louis invested in the arts, determined to make them a metaphor of political stability. He attracted to his court some of Europe’s most enlightened composers who in many ways revolutionized music.
Pacific Baroque Festival 2012 presents music written for the 17th and 18th century French courts, and will show how French music at the Court at Versailles influenced two great German composers, Telemann and Bach
The Artists
Paolo Pandolfo – viola da gamba
Soile Stratkauskas – baroque flute
Marc Destrubé – baroque violin
Byron Schenkman – harpsichord
Natalie Mackie – viola da gamba
Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Victoria Children’s Choir
St Christopher Singers
“Brilliant! The Festival just keeps getting better!”
“A delightful musical interlude on a winter’s day.”
“This festival is a treasure, a gift to Victoria.”
“I wasn’t aware of the ‘fantastic’ enjoyment that I was about to experience at the Pacific Baroque Festival. This has been something to rival any concerts on the Southbank in London.”
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