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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Birmingham City University
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Two Pastoralette: scholarly performing editions of music in two volumes. Accompanying published essay uploaded as PDF.
Thompson is an experienced editor of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s music, her previous work including music for two BBC Promenade concerts, concerts at the Wigmore Hall and St John’s, Smith Square, an Arts Council-sponsored concert tour, and a Hyperion recording. Her current editorial projects include a volume of motets for the complete critical edition of Charpentier’s works being published by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
The present critical editions of Charpentier’s two so-called pastoralette relate to her research into the Italian aspects of the composer’s work, as revealed in Thompson_03 and described in its accompanying commentary. Although the first of the _pastoralette_ (_Amor vince ogni cosa_, for five voices, two treble instruments and basso continuo: ISBN 978-1-905779-94-9; ISMN 979-0-708092-75-9) was recorded in 1996 by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Thompson’s is the first commercially available edition; the second work (_Cupido perfido, dentr’al mio cuor_, for four voices, two treble instruments and basso continuo: ISBN 978-1-905779-95-6; ISMN 979-0-708092-76-6) has never before been edited or performed.
Since the only source of the two _pastoralette_ takes the form of a non-autograph manuscript, it is necessary to make a case for their authenticity: Thompson’s essay on this topic, written to supplement the editions, is available free of charge on the publisher’s website: http://www.editionhh.co.uk/ab_macharpentier.htm (also uploaded to this submission). This draws on her extensive knowledge of the composer’s regular compositional and notational practices to demonstrate clear correspondences with aspects of the notation and style found in these works. The translations from Italian for these editions were carried out by Carrie Churnside (q.v.).
