Madame de Pompadour’s intimate parlour

Ensemble Pompadour invite you into their Parisian salon as they explore charming but little-heard repertoire, once played in private apartments on the most fashionable instruments of their day — the viola da gamba, theorbo, and the baroque musette, a tiny, bijou bagpipe made for playing indoors.

This delightful 18th-century French Baroque repertoire is routinely overlooked today, because it was domestic music, played by highly skilled amateurs in their private apartments or the gardens of Versailles palace. This is a rare opportunity to hear these rare instruments playing this rarely-heard repertoire.