Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Les Délices presents their concert La Guitarre Royalle, on February 12 & 13. This program highlights the astonishingly beautiful playing of Toronto-based lutenist Lucas Harris, whose poetic approach has been called “a revelation” (Le Devoir). Lucas, who serves on the faculty at Oberlin’s summer Baroque Performance Institute, will be joined by Scott Metcalfe (violin), Emily Walhout ’83 (viola da gamba), and Debra Nagy ’00/’02 (baroque oboe).
La Guitarre Royalle is a rare opportunity to hear the baroque guitar up close and personal in both solo and ensemble roles. The sound of the baroque guitar is very different from its modern counterpart owing to the instrument’s small size, construction, stringing, and tuning. The result is a versatile and colorful instrument whose clear sound is rich with overtones. In solo music, the baroque guitar’s palette ranges from sensitive and introspective to extroverted and uplifting. When playing continuo in an ensemble (the baroque practice of improvising chordal accompaniment above the bass line), the guitar can bring a similar intimacy to the group, or act as a percussive, energizing force.
Les Délices’ program features solos and trios by Jean-Féry Rebel and Louis-Nicholas Clérambault, plus a mesmerizing chaconne by Louis XIV’s own guitar master Francesco Corbetta that will tug at listeners’ heart-strings. In a special nod to Valentine’s day, Les Délices will also present François Couperin’s rarely-performed “Portrait of Love” (Ritratto dell’amore). Each movement of the work carries a title paying tribute to love’s many facets - from pure joy to vivacity and sweetness – even its inimitable “je ne sais quoi”! Finally, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s rustic Ballets de village will set audience members in the mood to go dancing into the night.
Les Délices performs La Guitarre Royalle inside the galleries of Tregoning & Company on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:00pm, and at Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 4:00pm. Visit www.lesdelices.org for tickets and more information.
The final concerts in Les Délices' 2010-11 series will be “Myths & Allegories” on May 14 & 15, 2011.
Tregoning & Company
1300 West 78th Street
Cleveland, OH 44102
Herr Chapel
Plymouth Church
2860 Coventry Road
Shaker Heights, OH 44120
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