When twenty-five years ago, Luc Caudy founded a choir and orchestra ensemble, he named it At pleasure (for fun). Quite a program! For the pleasure, first of all, of making music together with very high-level amateurs and of sharing it with a wide audience.
This conductor, student of Pierre Dervaux at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and laureate of the prestigious Viennese master classes for conductors in Vienna, immediately led, for pleasure, this ensemble to the heart “of works drawn from the great riches of the repertoire”.
With, on display, monuments of Verdi, Bach, Vivaldi, Fauré or with Creation et The Seasons by Haydn, the ensemble has acquired great notoriety over the years. Sunday November 10, in the Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc church in Tours, the choir and the A Piacere orchestra will perform the Cantatas BWV 131 of Bach and the Great Mass in C minor, “marked by the influence of Handel and Bach, written by Mozart in honor of his fiancée, Constance Weber.”
Prestigious soloists gathered for this concert
For this concert, the ensemble brought together prestigious soloists: the sopranos Maïlys de Villoutrey and Élodie Kimmel, the tenor Sébastien Droy and the bass-baritone François Bazola. As for the orchestra, under the direction of Luc Caudy, it will be made up of around thirty professional musicians, all from major national groups.
