Fete d'Ete: French Cantatas and Suites (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 performed Fête d’Eté: French Cantatas and Suites,a collection of elegant and virtuosic instrumental music, and witty and amorous cantatas by Marais, Charpentier, and others. The Folger Consort peformed Fête d’Eté from April 8 to April 10, 2011, in the Folger Elizabethan Theatre.

Artists

Folger Consort

Artistic Director

• Robert Eisenstein: viola da gamba

Guest artists

• Krista Bennion Fenney: violin
• Joseph Gascho: harpsichord
• Jolle Greenleaf: soprano
• Colin St. Martin: transverse flute