Bestiaires des plats pays

Thursday April 16, 2009, 8:00 pm

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours

[a] 400, rue Saint-Paul Est — Vieux-Montréal, Québec [métro Champ-de-Mars]
[w] http://www.marguerite-bourgeoys.com/

A co-production with the Ensemble Caprice — Music of Flanders and the Netherlands for Recorder Quartet — 4 musicians

Works of the Renaissance (Ockeghem, Obrecht and Clemens non Papa), of the 17th century (Schuyt, Sweelinck, Padbrue, Hacquart), and of today (Chiel Meijering, Dick Koomans)

The highest form of art, according to the Ancients, is that which strives, above all, to imitate nature. Imitation allows one to appropriate and in some ways tame the real. It is, in a sense, a way of revealing the beauty of the world. Musicians take their musical ideas from many sources of sound. They seek to describe natural phenomena, such as murmuring waves, wind, storm, thunder, and tempest; to imitate the songs, barks, twitters, and characteristic sounds that animals make; or describe the way animal bodies move.