Simphonie Nouvelle: Louis XIV & Bach

Simphonie Nouvelle, comprised of baroque guitarist Stephen Stubbs, co-director of the Boston Early Music Festival and Pacific Music Works, and viola da gambist Susie Napper, founder and director emeritus of the Montreal Baroque Festival, along with flutist and Salish Sea Early Music Festival director Jeffrey Cohan, present music by many of the late 17th and early 18th-century guitarists, viola da gambists, flutists and other composers associated with the illustrious musical establishment of Louis XIV, alongside the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Louis XIV gathered the finest musicians of France at his court in Versailles and this program features many of these superstars, including guitarists Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) and Robert De Visée (c.1655-1732), viola da gambists Sainte Colombe (c.1640-c. 1700), Marin Marais (1656-1728) and Jacques Morel (c.1680-1740), flutist Michel de la Barre (c.1675-1745), and composers Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) and François Couperin (1668-1733). The Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed as well.