Festival Beethoven à Beaune 2025 - jeudi 3 avril - Couperin/Bach - R.Terakado, E.S.Kim, K.Uemura, F.Guerrier

Ryo Terakado, baroque violin
EunShik Kim, baroque violin
Kaori Uemura, viola da gamba
François Guerrier, harpsichord

François Couperin :
L'Impériale, sonade. Le Parnasse, ou l'Apothéose de Corelli, large trio sonata
Louis Couperin: Pieces in C
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonata in C minor "Sanguineus und Melancholicus", Wq 161
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in G Major BWV 530

This programme highlights not only the richness and diversity of Baroque music, but also the notion of transmission and filiation, both artistic and familial. François Couperin opens the concert with L'Impériale, a sonata from Les Nations, illustrating his mastery of the French style blended with Italian influence. This continuity is rooted in the family heritage: the Pièces en ut by Louis Couperin, his uncle, bear witness to the elegance and sensitivity characteristic of this illustrious dynasty of musicians.
The idea of transmission extends beyond the Couperin family with Le Parnasse, ou l'Apothéose de Corelli, in which François Couperin celebrates the influence of Corelli, the father of the Italian sonata, by uniting French and Italian styles. This stylistic dialogue is echoed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian's son, in his sonata Sanguineus und Melancholicus, reflecting the transition from the Baroque to the galant style.
The programme concludes with Johann Sebastian Bach and his Sonata in G major BWV 530, a dazzling example of the transmission of an art where virtuosity and depth come together.

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