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What do pandas dream about ?

An ecological fable between music and puppet, East and West, yesterday and today.

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Royal festivities at the French court

With music, singing, dancing and sumptuous costumes, Doulce Mémoire invite you to come and enjoy their evocation of such a celebration at the court of François I.

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Musics at the French court

This concert recreates the daily atmosphere of the pleasant and charming life at the court of the King of France during the 16th century.

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Le printemps of Claude Le Jeune

Often mentioned, often analysed (notably by Olivier Messiaen) but rarely heard, Claude Le Jeune’s Le Printemps was brazenly modern for its time.

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Italian fricassées

Our programme presents works that are rare, burlesque and sharp-witted performed here by singers-actors who are truly in their element with this genre.

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Nights of Jaipur

Here two worlds are brought together: that of the ragas, as played in the palaces of North India, and that of ars subtilior, as heard in the fifteenth century at the Visconti court…

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Fountain of Fortune

The last fires of the chivalrous ideal through this fifteenth century court music whose subtlety and melancholy enchant us.

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Cabezón the European

A colourful picture of music in Europe at the time of the Spanish Siglo d’Oro. Musics of Antonio de Cabezón (1510 – 1566)

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The cry of the tournebout

Concert musicologically irresponsible

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Songs and dances

A programme full of grace, spice and flavour, with music and songs composed by the great masters of the French Renaissance.

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Carpe Diem : Ronsard, poète lyrique

A tribute to this great poet who judged the music indispensable to the transmission of the poetic text, and declared himself the first French lyric poet.

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La Dive Bouteille

Renaissance cabaret inspired by the novel “Vie très horrificque du Grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel” by Rabelais !

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Roses of Ispahan

The concert proposes a dialogue between the Nuovo Stile of Caccini in the early seventeenth century and the classical Persian vocal music.

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Renaissance splendours

A colorful ceremony with 19 musicians from Doulce Mémoire and more than 50 amateur chorists – New creation 2017

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Field of the Cloth of Gold – 1520 : a mass for Peace

The meeting for the Field of the Cloth of Gold culminated with the celebration of High Mass. Which was the more impressive: the complex, virtuosic English style, or the French…

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Requiem for the Kings of France

Eustache du Caurroy’s Missa pro Defunctis is undoubtedly the most famous requiem mass of the Ancien Régime.

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Tenebrae for the Saturday of Holy Week

The Lamentations of Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53) were sung in the Sistine Chapel.

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Music for the funeral of Anne of Brittany

Doulce Mémoire evokes the splendid ceremonies that were to inspire French royal funerals for several centuries to come.

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Christmas in Rome : Lauds and oratorios

Doulce Mémoire invite you to attend a prayer vigil in Rome’s popular Trastevere district in the early seventeenth century. This music, immediate in its charm, comes within…

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Lauds – The East and the West Confraternities

Religious fraternities composed of laymen existed in both the Muslim and the Catholic traditions.

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