Ensemble Les Surprises
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas | direction and organ
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in the footsteps of Bach.
Bach Concerto for keyboard and strings No. 5 BWV 1056
« Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland », choral BWV 659
Prelude and Fugue BWV 849, from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Böhm « Vater unser im Himmelreich », varied choral
Bach Sonata in trio No. 3 BWV 527
Concerto BWV 1052 from Cantata BWV 146
What do the illustrious Johann-Sebastian Bach and the young Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas have in common? They are both considered to be keyboard wizards. At the organ, where the Kantor of Leipzig outshone all his contemporaries, and as director of the ensemble Les Surprises cofounded with viola da gamba player Juliette Guignard, the Lyon-born musician browses the repertoire with orchestra of well-tempered studies and other choral works by his illustrious elder. He is possessed of a fiendish virtuosity for what is ultimately sacred music. Even the first movement of the Concerto BWV 1052 takes us back to the Almighty: “we must endure many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God”, in the words of Cantata BWV 146, for which it was the original opening. A packed programme.
Coréalisation Jeanine Roze Production / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées