Le Consort
Justin Taylor, harpsichord
Gwendoline Blondeel, soprano associate artist of the Festivals de Wallonie 2024
Performed by our associate artist, Gwendoline Blondeel, and the musicians of the Consort, this special Bestiaire brings together modern aesthetics and Baroque sounds. It questions our contemporary fables: where does the imagination of man go when animals escape? What do leviathans, vouivres, unicorns, phoenixes, yetis, hippogriffs and mermaids tell us about ourselves? What have mammoths, tarpans and dodos become? For this re-creation of the work originally commissioned by the Festivals de Wallonie from Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps in 2021, two additional songs enrich the cycle. And to complete this evocative and poetic programme, the Consort draws on a more properly Baroque Bestiary (Couperin, Rameau or Dandrieu,...).
Program :
Jean-Luc Fafchamps: The outdated Bestiary