CELEBRATE THIS FESTIVAL

Program

1h10 sans entracte

accentus opens celebrations of the Resonanzen early music festival at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Together with the Poème Harmonique and conducted by Vincent Dumestre, the choir will perform the well-named piece by Henry Purcell: Celebrate this festival, an ode composed in 1693 for Queen Mary’s birthday. The French 17th century will also be featured with extracts from Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully’s comédie-ballets, who invented the genre to please Louis XIV, a dance enthusiast.