Programme

Having been on the musical scene for over 30 years, La Follia instrumental ensemble possesses a rich repertoire and is particularly known for offering its audience old classics and different genres whilst always endeavouring to respect the music’s authenticity.

Below is a brief summary of the programme:

Concerts/events

Anniversaries, commemorations, homages. These are some of the current and forthcoming well-known events:

2008 : 90th anniversary of the 1918 armistice
L'Armistice autrement
2009 : bicentenary of musician Haydn’s death
Haydn autrement
L'inspiration religieuse chez Mozart et Haydn

Homages paid to composers

Homage is paid to one or several masters of music in a single programme which usually includes another modern composer’s work:

Bach - Bacri
Mozart - Schoeller
Jan Dismas Zelenka - Jan Vaclav Stamitz

Concerts/shows

Different forms of artistic expressions can be seen in La Follia’s concerts, accompanied by projections and dance:

With a coffee (Bach - Finzi - Mouret)
Poetry and music at the beginning of the 20th century (Britten - Respighi - Schoenberg - Lekeu)
Words and music (Sauguet - Françaix)
Charles Burney’s musical voyage in Europe of light, concert/reading, production 2009 (Tartini - Gallupi - Hasse- Haydn- Stamitz - Mozart)
Astrophonia, concert/conference with the participation of Hubert Reeves (Maratka - Bartok)
Vauban, music and images, concert/projection (Lully – Delalande – Biber – Telemann – Zbinden – Barber - Stravinski)
Tango evening (Galliano - Piazolla)