Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford

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Laissez durer la nuit (Let the Night Last) is the fascinating title of a concert by mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre (who regularly takes part in concerts by William Christie) and the lute and theorbo player Thomas Dunford. The program by both artists focuses on the compositions of 17th-century French composers, including pastoral work by Michel Lambert, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Marin Marai and more. Sébastien Le Camus is the composer of Laissez durer la nuit, a famous song and tribute to the night in the tradition of an aubade. The concert combines vocal pieces, accompanied by instruments, in the intimate style of French music from three hundred and fifty years ago with the grandeur and pomposity of the French courtly music performed at Versailles.

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