Voice and Lute

This concert was posted on April 2nd from a concert given at the Festival de Maguelone last year. The singer is Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford plays the very ungainly Baroque lute. The music is by a variety of 17th century French composers. What is most unusual is that both artists perform the whole concert from memory--something you often see with singers but never with accompanists. The program is all songs, with solo lute pieces by Robert de Visée and Marin Marais interspersed. Really a lovely and very unusual performance.

Encores included Debussy and Handel. You don't hear Debussy on Baroque lute very often. Nor harmonics, for that matter.

UPDATE: Looks like they were reading the encores at least from a discretely positioned iPad.