Graham Sadler explores the work of three of the most lively and versatile figures in French musical life during the half-century after the death of Lully. Andre Campra (1660-1744), Louis-Nicolas Clerambault
(1676-1749) and Michel Pignolet de Monteclair (1667-1737) tend to be grouped among the so-called pre-
Ramistes. But to regard them as no more than pale precursors of the great Rameau is to underestimate the wealth of witty, elegant and often intensely moving music they wrote. 1: Tradition and Innovation
Including the overture to Monteclair's Jephte with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Clerambault's First Harpsichord Suite played by Kenneth Gilbert , excerpts from Campra's
L 'Europe Galante performed by Gustav Leonhardt and La Petite Bande ,
Clerambault's L'Impromptu performed by Les Elements, and Monteclair's Morte di Lucretia sung by Monique Zanetti with Les Arts Florissants. Repeated from last Monday