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September 2019
Delights & Diversions
18th Century France set the global standards for luxury and leisure. This program is inspired by their grand feasts, extraordinary gardens, glittering ballrooms, and delectable desserts - complete with sung recipes, odes to champagne, solos for viola da gamba by Marin Marais, excerpts from Charpentier’s Plaisirs de Versailles, and more. Presented by First Lutheran Church of Lorain's First-music Concert Series.…
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Intoxicating
Les Délices is inspired by heady perfumes and strong elixirs in this program of strange and wonderful Medieval music from the Ars Subtilior. Singers Elena Mullins and Jason McStoots perform works by Machaut, Solage and others, accompanied by harp, lute, recorder and medieval fiddle. Elena Mullins, soprano Jason McStoots, tenor Debra Nagy, medieval winds and voice Scott Metcalfe, vielle and…
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Songs of Hope
Presented by Early Music in Columbus, Songs of Hope sees Les Délices return to the world of the Romance of the Rosee, where the allegorical character Hope (Esperance) sustains a courtly lover through the thousand pains of lovesickness and teaches him to find delight instead of suffering. Presented in collaboration with Boston’s Blue Heron, this program explores a group of…
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Myths & Allegories
Presented by Early Music Now. Rising-star soprano Clara Rottsolk is featured in this program, which was released as Les Délices’ second CD recording in November 2012. Myths & Allegories weaves dramatic depictions of tales from Homer’s Odyssey together with instrumental chamber music inspired by Greek mythology, and features cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (Le Sommeil d’Ulisse) and Thomas-Louis…
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Presented by Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana Rising-star soprano Clara Rottsolk is featured in this program, which was released as Les Délices’ second CD recording in November 2012. Myths & Allegories weaves dramatic depictions of tales from Homer’s Odyssey together with instrumental chamber music inspired by Greek mythology, and features cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (Le Sommeil d’Ulisse) and…
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Songs without Words
“This unusual program is new, innovative, and exploratory…with aspects of improvisation and creativity that is sometimes missing from stage.“ – Laura SanBoeuf, Renaissance & Baroque Society Pittsburgh Based on the ensemble's acclaimed 4th CD dubbed "successful, risk-taking music" (TheWholeNote.com), Songs without Words takes the adaptation of 17th Century airs for instruments as its point of departure and brings the concept into…
Find out more »Caractères de la danse
Presented by Academy of Early Music. An essential element in the ballroom and on the theater stage, music for dancing is at the heart of French baroque style. Les Délices’ program includes Rebel’s brilliant Caractères de la Danse (a fantasia choreographed for a single virtuoso dancer), a scene from Rameau’s Pigmalion, solo suites for oboe and viol by Philidor and…
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