WhiteLion wrote...
The Hilliard Ensemble easily. They did a concert/Q&A and both parts were amazing. They are a male choral group specializing in early music. This particular concert focused on renaissance madrigals from Italy and England.
That does sound splendid. I love after-concert Q&A parts.
For me it's a tie between
-(in popular music) Aavikko, which I saw during their Viitostie tour. I have never, ever before or after witnessed such genuinely amusing and quirkily charismatic people in concert.
-(in classical music) Phillippe Pierlot and Pierre Hantaï playing Couperin. The Q&A was wonderful too, as Hantaï was discussing some of the notes Couperin had made on the compositions (such as his note on
La Séduisante, "j'aime mieux ce qui me touche que ce qui me surprend"); this was a wonderful way to learn something about the man "François Couperin" behind that towering giant of composers "Couperin Le Grand".