Traditional Irish and Scottish music, as part of the European Heritage Days and the Saint-Denis Festival. Free concert in partnership with the City of Saint-Denis, Suivi la Flèche and the Centre des monuments nationaux.

with The Curious Bards

Alix Boivert, baroque violin & conductor
Sarah Van Oudenhove, viola da gamba
Jean-Christophe Morel, Irish cittern
Louis Capeille, triple harp
Bruno Harlé, flutes
Ilektra Platiopoulou, mezzo-soprano

PROGRAM
concert duration: approximately 1h20

1 – La Rotonde des Valois

Three Scottish airs from “A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances”, 1757
The Lads of Elgin
The Highlandman Kissed His Mother
The Fyket

Since sounding drums (Irish song from “Vocal magazine”, 1798)

Three Irish airs
Mary O’neill (Turlough O’Carolan)
The Lads of Dunse (“Hibernian Muse”, 1770)
Port Patrick (“Hibernian Muse”, 1770)

2 – THE CROSSING OF THE TRANSEPT

Highland battle (from “Caledonian pocket companion”, 1750)
Farewell (Scottish song from “The musical miscellany”, 1786)

3 – THE HIGH CHORUS

Set of 2 tunes with variations
The Rakes of Mallow (Irish instrumental, 1800)
Reel of Tulloch (Scottish instrumental with variations by David Young, 1734)

Kilkenny is a handsome place
(Irish song from “Calliope or The Musical Miscellany”, 1788)

Set of 3 Irish/Scottish tunes
Lady Herriot Hopes (from “Edinburgh Repository of Music”)
Sir Adam Ferguson’s reel (from “Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets”, 1766)
Bonny Lads (from “48 original irish dances”, 1795)

4 – THE NAVE

King of the Blind (from “A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes”, 1724)

Set of 3 Scottish tunes from “A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs…”, 1797
Miss Loraine of Kirkharles
Fight about the Fire side
Lochailis away to France

Lady Anne Bothwell’s lament
(Scottish song from “Orpheus Caledonius”, 1733)