​L’ENTENTE CORDIALE
RICHARD BOOTHBY & CHRISTOPHE COIN
bass viols
 
If the sound of one bass viol was considered full and complete, then two of them is an embarrassment of riches. Yet this combination was popular first here in England, home to some of the first great virtuosos of the instrument, including Matthew Locke, Christopher Simpson and M de Ste Colombe, and then across the channel, just as the fashion for it waned in England, providing a continuity of music from Ferrabosco to Couperin.  Join two of Europe's finest virtuoso instrumentalists, Christophe Coin and Richard Boothby, on 19 March for this special programme of Anglo-French music which explores the two sides of this sometimes complex, musically fascinating partnership.  
 
Programme
 
Matthew Locke - Duo for two bass viols in C major/minor
Fantazy, Fantazy, Courante, Fantazy, Fantazy, Sarabande
 
Christopher Simpson - Duo in F major
 
Locke - Duo for two bass viols in D major/minor
Fantazy, Fantazy, Courante, Fantazy, Fantazy, Sarabande

Simpson - Duo in G major
 
INTERVAL
 
Jean de Ste Colombe - Concert X: Les Couplets
[Chaconne], Bergeronette preste
 
François Couperin - Douzième Concert
pointé-coulé; Badinage; Lentement, et patétiquement, Air
 
Ste Colombe - Concert LI: Rougeville
Rougeville; Gigue; Sarabande; En gavote; En gigue; Menuet; Pianelle; Chacone de Rougeville 

​This concert is part of the 2016 European Day of Early Music celebrations organised by the European Early Music Network (REMA).
http://earlymusicday.eu

SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2016, 7.30pm
ST BENE’T’S CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3PT
 
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Cambridge Early Music
2016 Summer Schools: 31 July – 13 August

Join us as we follow the trail of Spanish music through the sixteenth century, from the Cancionero via villancicos and vihuela-songs by Narvaez and Mudarra, motets by Guerrero and Morales, and the monumental six-part Requiem by Victoria to the polychoral works of the eighteenth century by Franciso Valls and José de Nebra.

​Details & booking: www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org/summer-schools