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April 2018
Fated Lovers
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Just as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, true love sometimes ends with the ultimate sacrifice. Two evocative cantatas by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (Pyrame et Thisbé and Héro et Leandre) and excerpts from Rameau’s groundbreaking opera Hippolyte et Aricie relate the timeless tales of star-crossed lovers in this new program featuring acclaimed soprano Clara Rot tsolk (“supple…
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Mozart in Paris-Part 2
Presented by Early Music in Columbus Mozart in Paris–Part 2 features acclaimed American fortepianist Sylvia Berry in a brand new program for oboe, strings that offers audiences a new perspective on the famous composer. Les Délices creates a context for Mozart’s time in the City of Light by setting his works alongside those composers whose music was all the rage.…
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Age of Indulgence
Les Délices performs music from their CD Age of Indulgence for Washington DC's venerable concert series at Dumbarton Oaks. Age of Indulgence presents daring, experimental works from the French Rococo – music from the eve of an aesthetic revolution. These works from the 1740s and 1750s don’t conform to our expectations about Baroque music, but they’re not quite Classical either. Rather, they mix the…
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Les Délices performs music from their CD Age of Indulgence for Washington DC's venerable concert series at Dumbarton Oaks. Age of Indulgence presents daring, experimental works from the French Rococo – music from the eve of an aesthetic revolution. These works from the 1740s and 1750s don’t conform to our expectations about Baroque music, but they’re not quite Classical either. Rather, they mix the…
Find out more »February 2019
Mozart in Paris
Presented by Pittsburgh State University. With plentiful performance opportunities and a booming market for published music, Europe’s most fashionable city should have been ripe for the young Mozart’s picking! But the strong-willed, young composer lost out when he refused to network with influential people or accommodate French tastes. Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey joins Les Délices for this special program that…
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Presented by Wilton Candlelight Concerts. With plentiful performance opportunities and a booming market for published music, Europe’s most fashionable city should have been ripe for the young Mozart’s picking! But the strong-willed, young composer lost out when he refused to network with influential people or accommodate French tastes. Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey joins Les Délices for this special program that pairs…
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Les Délices presents their popular Baroque-Jazz Crossover program Songs without Words for Providence College. Songs without Words takes the adaptation of 17th Century songs for instruments as its point of departure and brings the concept into the 20th Century with torch songs and jazz standards arranged and improvised by the ensemble. Music by baroque composers Lambert, Lully, and Marais is heard…
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Les Délices presents their popular Baroque-Jazz Crossover program Songs without Words for Five Boroughs Music Festival. Songs without Words takes the adaptation of 17th Century songs for instruments as its point of departure and brings the concept into the 20th Century with torch songs and jazz standards arranged and improvised by the ensemble. Music by baroque composers Lambert, Lully, and Marais is…
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Les Délices presents their popular Baroque-Jazz Crossover program Songs without Words for Five Boroughs Music Festival. Songs without Words takes the adaptation of 17th Century songs for instruments as its point of departure and brings the concept into the 20th Century with torch songs and jazz standards arranged and improvised by the ensemble. Music by baroque composers Lambert, Lully, and Marais is…
Find out more »March 2019
Mozart in Paris
Don’t miss our only Ohio-area performance in 2018-19 of this popular program presented by Music from the Western Reserve!
With plentiful performance opportunities and a booming market for published music, Europe’s most fashionable city should have been ripe for the young Mozart’s picking! But the strong-willed, young composer lost out when he refused to network with influential people or accommodate French tastes. Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey joins Les Délices for this special program that pairs chamber music by Mozart for oboe & strings with Paris’s toasts of the town – Boccherini, Gluck, and more.
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