Founded in 1980, the Ricercar label celebrates forty-five years of existence with quiet discretion. An opportunity to take stock with founder Jérôme Lejeune about the complicated economics of the CD, and its indispensable role as both a tool of memory and a musicological act. 
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Founded in Namur in 1980, Ricercar remains a worldwide reference in the field of early music. At seventy-three, the label’s founder Jérôme Lejeune discreetly celebrates forty-five years of activity—and continues to record, edit, dig through archives, and unearth hidden treasures of the Baroque and Renaissance repertoire. As the CD market declines, he stands firm, with the quiet conviction of a pioneer, on an exacting musicological vision and an unbroken fidelity to the pursuit of origins.
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