Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie / Alexis Kossenko

A galant giant orchestra

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About this concert

We like to do things on a grand scale at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, but it doesn't often turn out to be quite as massive as this concert with Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie. With four orchestral suites, the 70-strong orchestra is aiming for an evening of exuberant musical entertainment à la Versailles, where important occasions were celebrated in breath-taking splendour.

King Louis XV pulled out all the stops for the wedding of his grandson, the Count of Artois. His 'surintendant de la musique' François Francœur was given carte blanche to provide the luxurious dinners with a perfect soundtrack. The result: sparkling orchestral pages distilled from the operas of Mondonville, Rameau and other iconic masters. Their compositions are given a festive look, tailored according to the latest fashion, entirely to the taste of a royal court situated between Baroque, Rococo and Classical.

Programme

  • Symphonie du Festin Royal de Monseigneur le Comte d’Artois

    Compiled by François Francœur

    Première suite in F

    (1773)
  • François Francœur

    Ouverture
    (from: Le Trophée)

    Air grave & Air gai
    (from: Ballet de la paix)

  • Pierre-Montan Berton

    Air vif

    1727-1780
  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

    Rondeau gracieux et tendre
    (from: Zaïde)

    c1705-1755
  • François Francœur

    Chaconne
    (from: Le ballet de la paix)

  • Deuxième suite in g

  • François Francœur

    Ouverture
    (from: Scanderberg)

    1698-1787
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Air majestueux
    (from: Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour)

    1683-1764
  • François Francœur

    Air gracieux
    (from: Pirame et Thisbé)
    Air vif
    Gavottes gracieuses

  • François Francœur

    Air marqué
    Air vif​
    (from: Ballet de la Félicité)

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Gavottes gracieuses
    (from: Dardanus)

  • François Francœur

    Contredanse

  • Troisième suite in E

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Marche
    (from: Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour)

    Rondeau gracieux
    (from: Les surprises de l’amour)

    Air vif
    (from: Hippolyte et Aricie)

  • Pierre-Montan Berton

    Chaconne

  • Quatrième suite in D

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Ouverture
    (from: Zaïs)

    Menuet
    (from: Le temple de la gloire)

    Rondeau
    (from: Dardanus)

  • Antoine Dauvergne

    Entrée de Chasseurs
    (from: Énée et Lavignie)

  • Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

    Musette
    (from: Titon et l’Aurore)

    1711-1772
  • Jean-Féry Rebel / François Francœur

    Menuet I & II

  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

    Chaconne

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Tambourins
    (from: Castor et Pollux)

Musicians

  • Anne Parisot, Clément Lefèvre flute
  • Neven Lesage, Clara Espinosa, Thomas Letellier, Jean-Maurice Messelyn, Martin Roux oboe
  • François Charruyer, Amélie Boulas, Laurent Le Chenadec, Thomas Quinquenel bassoon
  • Lionel Renoux, Emma Cottet, Emmanuel Padieu horn
  • Joël Lahens trumpet
  • Stefano Rossi (solo), Tatiana Bechlitch-Szonyi, Philippe Couvert, Ariane Dellenbach, Hadrien Delmotte, Elisabeth Desenclos, Varoujan Doneyan, François Gasnier, Sophie Iwamura, Chloé Jullian, Diana Lee, Sandrine Naudy, Murielle Pfister, David Rabinovici, Clarisse Rinaldo, Yannis Roger, Giovanna Thiebaut , Alain Viau, David Wish, Koji Yoda violin
  • Hélène Couvert, Maialen Loth, Laurent Muller, Camille Rancière, Françoise Rojat, Marie Saint-Loubert-Bié, Jean-Luc Thonnérieux viola
  • Tormod Dalen, Gulrim Choï, Dominique Dujardin, Amaryllis Jarczyk, Claire Lamquet, Silvia Lenzi, Thomas Luks, Jean-Christophe Marq, Magdalena Probe, Nicolas Verhoeven, Vérène Westphal cello
  • Damien Guffroy, Luc Devanne, Michael Greenberg double bass
  • Guillaume Blaise timpani
  • Alexis Kossenko musical direction

About the performers

Two renowned ensembles come together in this company. La Grande Écurie and La Chambre du Roy, founded in 1966 by Jean-Claude Malgoire, caused a stir at the time by choosing to play period instruments. After Malgoire's death in 2018, the musicians of La Grande Écurie chose Alexis Kossenko, at that time the leader of the Les Ambassadeurs ensemble, to take over the baton. In 2020 the merger became a fact.

Frenchman Alexis Kossenko is currently fulfilling a successful double career as a flautist and conductor. As a player he feels at home on various types of flute, from the baroque recorder to the modern transverse flute. Among other things he was first flautist in Philippe Herreweghe's Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. As a conductor Kossenko leads the amalgamated ensembles Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie. He has been a guest conductor with, among other ensembles, Holland Baroque and Concerto Copenhagen.

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