43. Coffee Concert

‘From Paris to Dublin’ a florilegia of Irish tunes and French brunettes

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Friday 4 July 2025

11:00 am

12:00 pm

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43. Coffee Concert
‘From Paris to Dublin’ a florilegia of Irish tunes and French brunettes

From brunettes to sean-nós, when baroque meets folk

It was Anna Besson’s two greatest artistic passions that prompted her to conceive this programme. Ever since her childhood, she has been immersed in the world of traditional music and dance. She discovered traditional Irish music at the age of ten until a few years later, her affinity for the wooden flute drew her to the Baroque transverse flute and historical performance. The term ‘brunette’ refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century and had his roots in folk music. This programme is the outcome of this twofold musical practice, and results from extensive research into the most popular airs in eighteenth-century Ireland and France, from a time when traditional and ‘art’ music were in no way opposing concepts . . .

Admission: €22/16/10

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All works performed by Reinoud Van Mechelen Anna Besson a nocte temporis


Composer Work
Où êtes-vous allés, mes belles amourettes (Ballard, Brunettes ou petits airs tendres Tome II)
L’autre jour ma Cloris (Ballard, Tome I)
Il était un espagnol (Ballard, Tome III)
"Ah, the Poor Shepherd"
"Jack Laten"
"Will you go to Flanders"
Les Tourterelles (Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Concerts pour la flûte traversière, 1724)
The original Black Joke, sent to Dublin, Red Joak, White Joak, True Joke, Blue Joke, Fancy’s all
Suspendez quelques temps (Monsieur de la Ferronnerie, Airs sérieux et à boire, 1719)
Gilligrankie//"Irish Killiecrankie"
"Donal Og" (Mc Farlane Manuscript)
The world is always jarring, Up with Ailey, Jig for the German flute, Chorus Jig
My Nanny O
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