MUSIC

ARTEK: Réunion de Gôutes: Apotheosies of Corelli & Lully

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2024
7:00 PM

St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$18.50-$55
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There was a longstanding dispute in Baroque France over the respective merits of the French and Italian approaches to music (among other things, the French emphasizing piquant sonorities, the Italian clear structures). François Couperin, surely one of the great composers in the Western canon and probably one of the most under-appreciated, attempted a synthesis — not least in this pair of tributes to a great Italian master and a great French one (never mind that the great French master was actually born in Florence). This is just marvelous music.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The neighborhood has certainly taken the Mediterranean Dagon to heart.