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Shirley Thompson

Shirley Thompson

MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER

Pastoraletta Ia
Amor vince ogni cosa: Pastoraletta Ia


Pastoraletta IIa
Cupido perfido dentr’al mio cuor: Pastoraletta italiana IIa


Shirley Thompson is Director of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Her PhD thesis on performance practice in Charpentier (1997) has led to numerous articles on the composer, and her edited book, New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier, was published by Ashgate in 2010. She has prepared many performing editions of works by Charpentier, and her current projects include a volume of Charpentier’s petits motets for the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and an edition of Rameau’s La Naissance d’Osiris for the Opera Omnia Rameau.


Shirley Thompson: Charpentier’s Two Pastoralette: Questions of Authenticity
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