Royal Conservatory of Toronto | Les Violons du Roy

Les Violons du Roy, conducted by Music Director Jonathan Cohen, with soprano Karina Gauvin and contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, appear with an all-George Frideric Handel Program titled Streams of Pleasure after the album Gauvin and Lemieux recorded together in 2011.

All the music of the program was chosen from six of the greatest Handel oratorios.

Recognized for her work in the Baroque repertoire, Gauvin sings Bach, Mahler, Britten, and the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with equal success with the world’s leading symphony orchestras and opera houses. Lemieux is acclaimed as a peerless recital artist with an exceptional vocal palette having a special talent for French and Russian songs, as well as German lieder, and her international career has led her to the world’s most famous stages.

Les Violons du Roy takes its name from the celebrated court orchestra of the French kings. It was founded in 1984 by Bernard Labadie, now founding conductor, and continues under Cohen to explore the nearly boundless repertoire of music for chamber orchestra in performances matched as closely as possible to the period of each work’s composition.

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