Wednesday, June 13 at 8pm | New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

ENSEMBLE CLÉMENT JANEQUIN directed by Dominique Visse

Les Plaisirs du Palais: A palindromic banquet of Franco-Flemish music

Dominique Visse, countertenor; Bruno Boterf, tenor; Vincent Bouchot & François Fauché, baritone;
Renaud Delaigue, bass; Eric Bellocq, lute & organ

Drinking, feasting, drinking, hunting, more drinking, and seduction were the sensual pleasures of a Renaissance court. But there were subtler, more intellectual pleasures too: music, dancing, comedy, poetry, and a love of cleverness. A sensational hit at the 2001 BEMF, Visse and his ensemble return this year offering a banquet of sensual and intellectual pleasures, captured in music and dressed in the sort of conceit a Renaissance mind would have adored: a palindrome around the intermission such that the second half of the concert is a mirror image of the first.

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Ensemble Clément Janequin