Salle Cortot Reginald Mobley & Zachary Wilder: Salle Cortot
Paris, Salle Cortot — Main Hall
About the Event
Seventeenth‐century England witnessed a prodigious flowering of musical activity: John Dowland ushered in a golden age that was closed by Henry Purcell, poets of intimacy, singers of an aesthetic cultivating noble elegance (Dowland's Flow my Tears is exemplary in this respect). Above all, Purcell laid the foundations of a tradition that continues to this day, thanks to his stubborn basses: over his hypnotically swaying grounds, the voice spreads its wings in total freedom, as illustrated by songs such as O Solitude and Music for a While.
With Brandon Acker's theorbo and guitar, not forgetting Douglas Balliet's viol, two accomplished musicians, counter‐tenor Reginald Mobley and tenor Zachary Wilder, will set about magnifying these two giants with admirable eloquence and naturalness, while also offering us the chance to discover their heritage: in the United States at the end of the 19th century, Justin Holland, an African‐American classical guitarist and composer, sought to spread the classical repertoire through his arrangements and wrote some superb melodies.
PURCELL, DOWLAND, PEPYS/MORELLI, HOLLAND
English songs & american ballads
Cast / Production
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Brandon Acker, theorbo and guitar
Doug Balliett, viola da gamba
Address
Salle Cortot, 78 rue Cardinet, Paris, France — Google Maps
