Concert of viola da gamba and harpsichord

Name: Concert of viola da gamba and harpsichord
Start: 2024-09-21T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-21T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Saint-Sauveur

Saturday 21 September, 16:30Passed

Conditions

Duration 1h30, free participation.

©Monique Dupont Sagorin

The Association of Friends of the Church of Fours has programmed a concert of viola da gamba and harpsichord. For this, they will welcome the violist Prosper LUGASSY and the harpsichordist Michel Louet, with, on the program, 3 sonatas of Bach for these 2 instruments, and various works for harpsichord. The two musicians will present their respective instruments. Total duration approximately 1h30. The association works to enhance the architectural and historical heritage, but especially to safeguard this edifice dating from the thirteenth century. During these two days there will also be an exhibition of photographs by Monique Dupont Sagorin dedicated to maritime heritage and Gilles Boisset.

About the location

Eglise Saint-Sauveur

7 rue de l'église, Fours en Vexin, 27630 Vexin sur Epte

Eure
Normandie

A rich history of the Church of St.Trinity St.Saviour deserves a stop. Gift in 1218, from Robert du Bois, son of Gireaulme du Bois, (where Bois-Jérôme comes from). There is an altarpiece, in terracotta and oak, from the first half of the sixteenth century, formerly polychrome. The high relief, attributed to the sculptor of the Renaissance, Nicolas Quesnel, unique in the Norman iconography of this period, finds its model in an engraving of 1511 by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). A «Pieta» in wood Dating from the 15th or 16th century, this semi-relief comes from the chapel of the Château du Hallot in Aubigny, fief of Civières The 18th century porch in carved wood, is classified, it comes in front line among the porches of the Eure. The tumular slabs of the Fours family, the high-relief of the Trinity, the altarpiece of the Nativity, the statues of the Virgin and Child, of St Catherine of Alexandria and St Michael, the door of the sacristy, are inscribed in the Supplementary Inventory of Hist