Cal Performances | Music Before 1850 | Jordi Savall, viola da gamba, with Pierre Hantai, harpsichord, & Xavier Diaz, theorbo & guitar, L'Ange et le Diable (The Angel & the Devil)

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Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
with Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord &
Xavier Diaz, theorbo and guitar
L'Ange et le Diable

At the beginning of the 18th century, the sublime French composer Marin Marais' talent was often compared to that of Antoine Forqueray, his younger contemporary, who was said to have played like a devil, while Marais played like an angel. Returning to Berkeley, Cal Performances favorite and early music superstar Jordi Savall—"a man worth celebrating...a performer of genius," says the New Yorker—explores the work of these extraordinary masters in a concert featuring Marais' virtuoso Suite d'un goût étranger and a selection of Forqueray's intriguing and revealing Portraits musicaux.

Program (May 4): Marin Marais & Antoine Forqueray, L'Ange et le Diable (The Angel & the Devil), includes works by Marais, Visée, Couperin, and Forqueray
Program (May 5): works by Ortiz, Tobias Hume, Visée, J.S. Bach, de Sainte-Colombe, and Scarlatti

Program Notes
Program notes are available online. [PDF]

Audio Clips
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Marais/Pieces de Viole, Book 2: Suite in E minor *

Forqueray/Pieces de Viole, Suite no 1 in D minor *

Hume/Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke: Harke, harke *

* Clips listed here are representative of the artists, but may be different than what are being played as part of the Cal Performances program

Sightlines
Fri, May 4, 7-7:30 pm, First Congregational Church
Sat, May 5, 7-7:30 pm, First Congregational Church
Pre-performance talks by musicologist Victor Gavenda. These Sightlines events are free to all event ticket holders.