Programmes

 

Rococo Salon

Scenes from life of a baroque salon spiced with intrigue and love. The most beautiful arias, duets and instrumental pieces by Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and other baroque composers. The concert evokes the atmosphere of the 17-18 century with period dress, scenic accessories, acting and narration to complement and dramatize the musical experience, and making the performance unforgettable and extremely enjoyable. 

 

 

Rococo Thoughts

Discover Rococo themes like hoopskirts and fans, love and courting, enjoyment of exotic food and wine, pleasures of life, through music and poems from the 18th century with a touch of lightness and a drop of sensuality. On the programme: the most beautiful arias, duets and instrumental pieces by Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Purcell and other Baroque and Rococo composers along with poems by Robert Burns and other poets.

 

The Secret Language

of the Fans

The Marquise Ensemble presents you with a programme, which reveals the secret forgotten language of fans along with music, poems, acting and love. The music programme includes composers such as: Handel, Monteverdi, Couperin, Bach, Vivaldi and other famous composers. In the Baroque era, the fan became an ideal instrument of communication in an age on which freedom of speech for women was restricted. The main gestures and their respective meanings that together made up what was known as “the language of the fan”. It was seen especially in the Spanish, French and English courts where it became very common.

 

Here are a few examples:

To hold the fan with the right hand in front of the face

= Follow me.

To move it with the left hand = They are watching us.

To hold it closed = Do you love me?

 

 

The Cheer of The Baroque

In this programme we would like to show you the similar features and aspects between early music and folk music by taking a musical journey throughout Europe. The programme consists of a selection of special Hungarian music as well: music from the Vietoris codex and the Apponyi Manuscript, the so-called 'flower songs' which are Hungarian early Baroque songs, and,  traditional songs from Hungary and other countries of Europe. 

 

 

 

Handel Duets 

A selection of Handel's most delightful opera duest and popular arias with instrumental solos and graceful baroque dances.  

 

Charpentier Four Seasons

& Handel Arcadian Duets

The concert programme is built around rare gems of baroque music: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s four motets: the Four seasons and George Frideric Handel’s Arcadian Duets which is a wonderful selection of Handel’s Italian chamber duets. The lyrics of the four motets are passages from the biblical Song of Songs, while the texts of the Arcadian duets portray the effects of love on the human life and soul.  During the concert our Master of Ceremonies performs these sensual and passionate biblical texts together with poems from the 18th century. 

 

 

Venetian Baroque Christmas

The concert represents the Magic of Christmas with wonderful pieces of the baroque music and with traditional and cheerful songs in  the scene of a Venetian Christmas ball. 

 

Baroque Journey

A marvellous journey through the age of the Baroque music using your imagination and senses. With this programme we would like to take you across 17th -18th century musical Europe by performing a selection of the most beautiful baroque pieces. 

 

 

 

Visit at the Sunking

French Salon

The programme is a beautiful selection of French baroque music from the age of Louis the XIV: vocal and instrumental pieces by Rameau, Lully, Couperin, Daquin, Charpentier and other French baroque composers. With storytelling narration we introduce the French baroque music in an imaginative and entertaining way.

 

 

Mozart Salon 

All themes of the selected Mozart songs, arias and duets are representing different kinds of love.

“You who know what love is, ladies, see if I have it in my heart.”

 

Gems of Hungarian Early Music 

The Marquise Ensemble presents you with a programme,

which takes you across the ages of Hungarian  music

from 1000AD - 1800AD.

 

The pieces are selected from:

- Hungarian folk songs from the earliest times.

- Music from the Hungarian middle ages- fragment from Sigismundian  age.

- Renaissance Music from the court of King Matthias

- Songs of Balint Balassi, the composer of the borderlands.

- Hungarian Renaissance dances and songs  from the Kájoni Codex, Levočské manuscript, Vietóris Codex

   (among others compositions from Monteverdi, Tardi, Schütz and also Gipsy songs, Hungarian traditional

   songs and Hungarian Christian songs)

- Book of Virginal from Sopron

- 18th century music ’Verbunkos’, played during military recruiting.

- 18th- 19th century  dances and songs  so-called 'flower songs'

- Duets from Harmonia Caelestis by Prince Paul Eszterházy and  pieces by other Hungarian 18th century

  composers,  like Johann Kusser.