Fête d’Eté
French Cantatas and Suites
In the Folger Elizabethan Theater
April 8-10, 2011
Sophisticated gentlemen and ladies of baroque France were fond of pastoral conceits. Countless late 17th- and early
18th-century songs are rhapsodic about ever balmy breezes and the warmth of mythic summers. Celebrating the temperate season, the Folger Consort performs elegant and virtuosic instrumental music and witty and amorous cantatas by Marais, Charpentier, and others.
Folger Consort
Robert Eisenstein - viola da gamba
Guest Artists
Krista Bennion Fenney - violin
Joseph Gascho - harpsichord
Jolle Greenleaf - soprano
Colin St. Martin - transverse flute
