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February 2019
Songs without Words
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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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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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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Caractères de la danse
Due to Covid-19 outbreak, these performances have been cancelled. 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,…
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Bewitched
Bewitched explores universal themes of desire, jealousy, shame and revenge by giving voice to the spurned lovers of antiquity. Rising star soprano, Hannah De Priest gives voice to the sorceress Circe in a bone-chilling cantata by Colin de Blamant, and wreaks vengeance as the witch Medea in works by Clérambault and Couperin. Early Music Hawaii concerts will be hosted on…
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Ars Nova | Annus Novus
Presented by Music in the Somerset Hills. Debra Nagy is joined by soprano Elena Mullins and vielle player Allison Monroe in a program of stunning medieval music that rings in the new year. With each member of this all-female trio featured both as vocalist and instrumentalist, this program offers beguiling music of the fourteenth century as we look forward together…
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