Le Roi Danse
Wednesday July 24, 2024, 7:30pm at Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
Charivari Agréable (period instrument ensemble)
Edmund Taylor (violin)
Hannah Parry (baroque violin)
William Anderson (baroque viola)
Kate Conway (baroque cello)
Kah-Ming Ng (harpsichord/director)
Passacaille, from d’Armide – Jean-Baptiste Lully
Chacony for strings in G minor Z 730 – Henry Purcell
Concert pour quatres parties de violes H545 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Ciaccona – Johann Joseph Fux
Passacaglia, from Trio Sonata in G Op 5 No 4; HWV 399 – George Frideric Handel
Pavane in F sharp minor, from Pièces de clavecin – Louis Couperin
Chaconne de Phaeton – Jean-Baptiste Lully
Divertissement: Air–Rondeau–Ritournelle–Tambourin (from Les Indes Galantes and Dardanus) – Jean-
Philippe Rameau, arranged by Kah-Ming Ng
Courtly dance music inspired by Louis XIV, the dancing king who initiated the development of dance notation and founded the world’s first ballet school. Toe-tapping stuff performed by award-winning period ensemble Charivari Agréable.
