Thursday 9 July 7pm – c.8.15pm | Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Aldwark
Tickets: Unreserved seating £30 (£28) | Under 35s £10

Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano Paul Agnew tenor Sergio Bucheli lute

Courtly sophistication, colourful salon society and refined nobility take centre stage, as we immerse ourselves in France’s iconic secular vocal genre of the 17th century: the air de cour. With songs by Michel Lambert (hailed as the author of ‘les plus beaux airs’) and Sebastien Le Camus, the genre reached its pinnacle, encompassing solitary plaints and the joyful shouts of drinking songs to conjure a world of grace and wit that would have been the envy of even the most fashionable denizens of the Sun King’s court.

“[Helen Charlston is] surely one of the most exciting voices in the new generation of British singers” Gramophone
helencharlston.com

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