Concert « Bacchanale baroque » pièces de Marin Marais, François Couperin, Antoine Forqueray et Jean-Philippe Rameau

Alice Julien-Laferrière, violin

Mathieu Valfré, harpsichord by Philippe Humeau after Gräbner, from the Château de Bournazel

Many musicians of the Age of Enlightenment were inspired by mythology and

more particularly by the figure of Bacchus. The ancient origin (therefore respectable)

of his prowess allowed him to approach sensitive themes with regard to morality

or decency: grotesque laughter, debauchery, drunkenness...

Offering a space of freedom, the Bacchanalia are a central subject of art, of

Renaissance in the 18th century. Inseparable allies, music and wine make you sing

the daily life of humans since the dawn of time. Alice Julien-Laferrière and Mathieu

Valfré invites the public to share the intoxication of baroque sounds in this

intimate program. The more than abundant musical repertoire on this theme brings them

an inexhaustible source of material to evoke Bacchus, god of wine, theater,

intoxication and illusions, but also protector of trees and spring renewal.