[Airdate: March 18, 2026]
On Ovations this week, we look back at a November 2025 program from called "Wild Things." Music inspired by the sounds of animals is interspersed between musical tellings of Aesop's Fables. And at intermission, Les D茅lices' Debra Nagy speaks with John Mills about this program, a brand new album, and the rest of their concert season.
Les D茅lices: Wild Things
Elena Mullins Bailey, soprano
Debra Nagy, oboe & recorder
Shelby Yamin, violin
Rebecca Landell, cello
Mark Edwards, harpsichord
Georg Philipp Telemann: Suite from Don Quixotte
Fran莽ois Couperin: Rondement from Apoth茅ose de Lully
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Heinrich Biber: Sonata Representativa
The Hare and the Tortoise
Couperin: Le rossignol en amour
The Swallow and the Nightingale
John Walsh, arr. Nagy: Suite from Bird Fancyer鈥檚 Delight (1708)
Georg Philipp Telemann: Napolitana
The Lion and the Rat
Georg Philipp Telemann: Xantippe
Louis-Claude Daquin: Cuckoo
Thomas Arne: Where the bee sucks
The Tortoise and the Eagle