Le Chant du rossignol

Soirée for Two Harpsichords
on the Theme of the Four Elements and Bird Chirping

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Sunday 24. 07. 2022 | 19.30 Břevnov Monastery
Markétská 1, Praha 6
19.30–21.30
With intermission

Artists

Programme

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Concerto in F major „The Cockoo and the Nightingale“ (transcription)
 
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Le Rappel des oiseaux
 
François d’Agincourt (1684–1758)
Le Colin Maillard
Les Dances provençales
 
Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
Le Coucou
 
François Couperin (1668–1733)
Allemande à deux clavecins
La Juillet
Les Fauvètes plaintives
 
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747)
Les Élements (selection, transcription):
Le Cahos – Loure I (La Terre et L’Eau) – Chaconne (Le Feu) – Ramage (L’Air) – Loure II – Sicilienne – Caprice
 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Concerto for 2 harpsichords in C Major

Annotation

The harpsichord literally conquered the Baroque world as a quintessential part of musical productions. Its gentle and chiming sound is destined to imitate the voices of nature! The programme of Sunday’s concert in the Theresian Hall of the Břevnov Monastery will be repleted with sounds from the world of animals and the elements. Its protagonists will be two harpsichord masters – Aapo Häkkinen and Marcos Magalhães.

 

The interpretative skills of these two virtuosos will focus on selected soundscapes popular among 17th and 18th century composers throughout Europe. Among them we will find, for example, the singing of the nightingale, warbler or cuckoo, country dances and games, as well as the powerful quartet of earth, water, fire and air.

Venue

Břevnov Monastery

Markétská 1, Praha 6

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Artists

Aapo Häkkinen

Aapo Häkkinen

harpsichord

Aapo Häkkinen began his musical education as a chorister at Helsinki Cathedral. He took up the harpsichord, studying with Elina Mustonen, and Olli Porthan (organ) at the Sibelius-Akatemia (Helsinki). He studied with Bob van Asperen at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and with Pierre Hantaï in Paris, and also enjoyed the generous guidance and encouragement of Gustav Leonhardt. After obtaining his diploma in 1998, he won second prize at the MA Bruges International Competition for harpsichord.

 

Aapo Häkkinen has appeared as soloist and conductor in most European countries, in Turkey, Israel, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the USA, Brazil, and Mexico. He has recorded for the labels Aeolus, Alba, Avie, Cantus, Deux-Elles, Naxos, and Ondine. Besides the harpsichord, Aapo Häkkinen regularly performs on the organ, clavichord, and fortepiano.

 

He teaches at the Sibelius-Akatemia and in international masterclasses. He has been the artistic director of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra since 2003.

Marcos Magalhães

Marcos Magalhães

harpsichord, artistic director

Marcos Magalhães studied at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (with Kenneth Gilbert, Christophe Rousset, and Kenneth Weiss). He has given many concerts in Portugal and other European countries as well as in Asia.   Marcos Magalhães is the chief conductor of Os Músicos do Tejo, one of the leading ensembles on the Portuguese music scene, co-founded by and co-directed with Marta Araújo. Since 2006, the ensemble has presented many projects focused on Baroque music. It has produced six CDs (four of them released by the Naxos label), which have gathered enthusiastic reviews. The CD entitled “Il Trionfo d’Amore” was included in the Quarterly Critics’ Choice longlist of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, while the recording of the opera Il Mondo della Luna by Pedro António Avondano was nominated for the best classical album in the Portuguese Music Awards.   Marcos Magalhães performs as harpsichordist in many other projects, for example, in a duo with conductor and harpsichodist Aapo Häkkinen.