Boise Chamber Music Series presents Les Délices

Friday, November 8, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Morrison Center Recital Hall

Les Délices has established a reputation for unique programs that “can’t help but get one listening and thinking in fresh ways” (San Francisco Classical Voice). The New York Times observed that “Concerts and recordings by Les Délices are journeys of discovery,” while UK Classical Source added, “The centuries roll away when the members of Les Délices bring this long-existing music to communicative and sparkling life.”

From the sunrise of Lefebvre’s dawn cantata to romantic shadows of night, through love-lorn shepherds and Greco-Roman gods and goddesses as portrayed by George Frideric Handel and Jean-Pierre Rameau, and culminating in a death-defying celebration of marriage, Les Délices’ concert program for Boise transports us to “Arcadian Dreams,” an escape to a “vision of nature and humanity in perfect balance,” in the words of baroque oboist, director, and founder of Les Délices, Debra Nagy.

Oboist Nagy and gambist Rebecca Landrell will offer a truly improvisatory take on Corelli’s Sonata op.5/12 “La Folia.” Harpsichordist Caitlyn Koester is featured in Scarlatti’s Sonata in D Minor, K213. Soprano Hannah De Priest joins Nagy, baroque violinists Kako Boga and Shelby Yamin, gambist, and harpsichordist in performing cantatas by Thomas-Louis Bourgeois, Handel, Rameau, and Louis Antoine Lefebvre. Hailed a “breakout artist” (Boston Globe) with “a voice that is theater itself” (Classique News), De Priest’s recent credits include her Kennedy Center debut, European debut at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, and multiple productions with Boston Early Music Festival.

For tickets ($35) to this concert, please contact Jeanne Belfy,  jbelfy@boisestate.edu as soon as possible.

Convenient hourly public parking for non-Boise State parking permit holders attending Music Department events is available just south of the Morrison Center in the Brady Street Garage for $3.25 per hour. Cash and credit/debit cards are accepted at the kiosk.