Lillian Gordis: French Connection

Jean-Philippe Rameau is most famous now as a composer of grand operas, full of myth and phalanxes of woodwind, but in 1741 he published a remarkable collection of pieces with tantalising titles—not only pen-portraits of his fellow musicians like Forqueray and Boucon but also more general character studies of La Timide  and L’Indifférente. 

JS Bach’s Musical Offering has its own remarkable backstory, a collection composed for Frederick the Great of Prussia on a dastardly theme from the King himself. Fittingly for a flute-playing, Francophile monarch, this programme is filled with music that revels in crossing the border.  

Jean-Philippe Rameau Premier concert, Pièces de clavecin en concerts  
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Trio Sonata in B flat major 
Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079  

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Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata in C major, BWV 529 
Georg Philipp Telemann Paris Quartet, TWV 43:G1 
Jean-Philippe Rameau Cinquième concert, Pièces de clavecin en concerts  

Matthew Truscott violin 
Katy Bircher flute 
Jonathan Manson viola da gamba  
Lilian Gordis harpsichord  

Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm  

Included in the Edinburgh Subscription Season  

Presented by Dunedin Consort