In the salons of Rome’s Palazzo Farnese, Ensemble Marguerite Louise and Gaétan Jarry performed Charpentier and Carissimi in a Christmas programme blending French motets with seventeenth-century Roman writing. 
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In the salons of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, Ensemble Marguerite Louise and Gaétan Jarry bring together Charpentier and Carissimi for a baroque Christmas where France and Italy echo each other. Filmed during the annual concert of the French Embassy, the evening combines the ensemble’s familiar precision in the French repertoire with an incursion into the Roman tradition, carried by intimate and exquisite acoustics.
At the crossroads of Rome and the Grand Siècle
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It remains, however, an insult to the world that the French embassy has seized possession this truly unique and extraordinary Italian renaissance palazzo and closed it off for anyone not deemed worthy by some opaque standards. Imagine Italy had taken possession of Palais Royale in Paris or a similar building, denying access to essentially anyone…