French Cantata Part 2 Pan et Syrinx by Monteclaire Buddug Verona James and Welsh Baroque Orchestra

First performance in Wales of the French Cantata Pan et Syrinx by Michel Monteclaire. Performed at Rhosygilwen Concert Hall on 14th February 2009. Buddug Verona James and the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Conductor Andrew Wilson-Dickson, Leader Marianna Szucs, Flute Claire Heaney, Viola da gamba Lucy Robinson. Filmed by Glen Peters

Pan fell in love with the Arcadian Nymph Syrinx, an imitator of Artemis both in manners and in appearance, who had until then eluded the pursuit of both SATYRS and gods. Sirynx, desdaining him and spurning his love and prayers, refused to take a sweetheart, who was neither man nor goat. So, escaping from Pan, who pursued her, she came to the stream of the river Ladon in western Arcadia, and not being able to escape, she asked to the Nymphs of the river to change her form, and they, listening to her prayers turned her into marsh reeds. So when Pan wished to hold her there was nothing left of her except the reeds and the sound which the air produced in them. On hearing it Pan was charmed and, thinking of the Nymph, said to himself in triumph:

"This converse, at least, shall I have with you."

And so, joining reeds of different sizes, he invented the musical instrument that was named syrinx after her, or sometimes Pan flute, after him.

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• Syrinx
• Michel
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• Buddug
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• Welsh
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• Andrew
• Wilson-Dickson
• Marianna
• Szucs
• Claire
• Heaney
• Lucy
• Robinson
• Glen
• Peters

[redbrian3655]

Thank you. I have never had the chance to see this performed.