Concerts

François Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres pour Mercredi

Presented by the Connecticut Early Music Festival

Couperin's settings of the Leçons de Ténèbres pour Mercredi come from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and were written for the abbey of Longchamp, outside Paris, and printed between 1713 and 1717. The first two are for solo voice and continuo, the last for two voices, viola a gamba and continuo.