From the Barbican Hall, London. William Christie directs two works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier - an operatic divertissement intended for performance in Louis XIV's salons at Versailles, and a dramatic cantata on the legend of Orpheus and Euridice.
Charpentier Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Sophie Daneman (soprano), Katalin Karolyi (mezzo), Steve Dugardin (countertenor), Francois Piolino (tenor), Matthieu Lecroart (baritone)
8.00 What Heart of Stone Would Not Be Moved?
Graham Sadler looks at Charpentier's La Descente d'Orfee aux Enfers and its idiosyncratic treatment of the familiar myth.
8.20 Charpentier La Descente d'Orfee aux Enfers
Sophie Daneman, Mhairi Lawson and Gaelle Mechaly (sopranos), Katalin Karolyi (mezzo), Steve Dugardin (countertenor), Paul Agnew and Francois Piolino (tenors),
Matthieu Lecroart (baritone), Nathan Berg (bass)