Elegance can crackle with heat, and Accademia del Piacere proves it in the programme L’Ange et le Diable. Whether the flames leap high or smoulder among the embers, the characters in a French baroque suite appear one after the other at lightning speed. Whilst Marin Marais’ music is based on refinement, the younger Antoine Forqueray’s style is more Italian and – you guessed it – fierier and more impulsive. It’s time to choose between angelic purity and the temptations of the devil...
Fahmi Alqhai, viola da gamba
Javier Núñez, harpsichord
Johanna Rose, viola da gamba
Rami Alqhai, viola da gamba
Carles Blanch, viola da gamba
Predikherenkerk
Goswin de Stassartstraat 88, 2800 Mechelen
40% angel
40% devil
20% elegance
Location
Predikherenkerk
In cooperation with
Cultural Centre Mechelen
Tickets
€ 20 (-26: € 12)