François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres

About the Event

Revel in the fine interplay of harmony dissonance in François Couperin's moving Leçons de ténèbres performed by two exceptionnal singers, Maïlys de Villoutreys and Anaïs Bertrand, with the Baroque ensemble, Desmaret.

The Leçons de ténèbres ("lessons of darkness") was a liturgic genre particularly popular in France during the 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a delicate balance between lyricism and solemnity, light and darkness, the intimate and the grandiose.