Budapest Festival Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

During the 2015-16 season, one of the ‘big guns’ of historical music performance, violinist and conductor Sigiswald Kuijken, will direct two concerts by the BFO’s early music ensemble. Kuijken has chosen works by French Baroque composers for the first concert to be given together with the BFO’s Baroque ensemble.
The first, and arguably most influential composer of French Baroque music was a musician called Giovanni Battista Lulli (1632-1687). He was born in Italy to noble parentage and, having travelled to France, he entered the service of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV in 1653. At the French court he assumed the name Jean-Baptiste Lully. While his suite opens the concert, it concludes with a suite compiled from the witty opera Platée, composed by another giant of French Baroque music, Rameau (1683-1764). Also renowned as a theorist, he came about a generation after Lully. In between the two suites, pieces by Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), a pupil of Lully, and by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749), the creator of the ‘French cantata’, will give a taste of Baroque music with a French accent.