Bach; "Oh Perfect Love" by Joseph Barnby; "
Rigaudon" by Andre Campra; "Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clarke; and "Overture" from "Fireworks" by G.F.
All this happens, he says, only through the magic of a
rigaudon or a contredanse (30).
The Air can sound like Classic FM chill-out music but, in its austere original form, Trpceski imbued it with grace and gravitas and also brought a wittily light touch to the final
Rigaudon. Trpceski's delicate effervescent playing in seven of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words showed why these elegantly crafted miniatures are traduced by being labelled as Victorian parlour music.
The Air exhibits beautiful and mournful trumpet lyricism, and this is followed by a contrasting
Rigaudon to rekindle our spirits as a square dance might.
The Orchestra will also present three orchestral works, two of which are Cyprus premieres: the overture to the opera La Dame Blanche by the phenomenally successful opera composer Francois-Adrien Boieldieu and Camille Saint-Saens' baroque dances Sarabande and
Rigaudon, [eth]Ap.
Beginning with an attractive pairing of French baroque dances, "
Rigaudon and Rondeau" by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Francois Couperin's prodigiously gifted contemporary, and proceeding chronologically through a list of works by a total of 15 composers, it concludes with an exquisite "Berceuse" by Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of France's revolutionary Les Six.
The woman's rather stooped head and shoulders would have been made of a dummy figure attached in front of the Pierrot's 'real' head to the basket [...] This masked peasant stands inside a basket without a bottom* and performs the pas de
rigaudon, with strong stamps of the foot on the ground.
This year, as usual, there is a variety of composers and works including Franck's Fantaisie en la, Fiat Lux (Dix Pieces) by Dubois, Bonnet's Variations de Concert and Lully's
Rigaudon..
The orchestra began with a rousing selection of Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite, Prelude, Aria and
Rigaudon. Gifted 19-year-old Andre Gugnin played Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra E-Flat KV 449, Allegro with great sensitivity.
A chain of increasingly dynamic dances ensues ("Gavotte gracieuse," "Menuet," "Gavotte gaie," "Chaconne vive," "Loure tres grave," "Passepied vif," "
Rigaudon vif"), and is meant to evoke the awakening of the Statue to life.(27) The Statue attempts the steps of each in turn, before launching forth solo into a sensuous "Sarabande." At last, the throng enters to acclaim the miracle.
More significantly, he completely eliminated most of the step symbols from the notations, having outlined rules for `default' steps in the introductory material;(37) only nontravelling steps (jumps in place, balances and pas de
rigaudon), and hand and arm motions, were notated.