CHANSON D'AMOUR – Ekhof Festival

As a topos, love in music history is both an ideal and a contradiction: it is the object of aesthetic shaping, yet always already permeated by the conditions of social existence. The chamber concert "Chanson d'amour – A Musical Declaration of Love" explores this concept historically – from the ornamental figurations of Jean-Philippe Rameau to the expressive chansons of Edith Piaf – and reveals how the image of love changes in the mirror of musica...