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Country pleasures

Royal College’s production of Les Fêtes d’Hébé – alongside beautiful performances of two suites by Les Talens Lyrique and Academy of Ancient Music – shows Rameau to be the master of pastoralism

issue 15 April 2017

  • Les Fêtes d’Hébé

    Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music

  • Academy of Ancient Music/Jordi Savall

    Barbican Hall

  • Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset

    Wigmore Hall

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