From statue to living body: based on the myth of Pygmalion, Camille Delaforge brings together two 18th-century French scores, Rameau’s ballet act and an unpublished cantatille by Antoine Bailleux, a contemporary composer who has fallen into oblivion. Performed by Mathias Vidal, this recording uses music to explore the very act of creation.
Concerto Soave brings together the two Venite, exultemus settings by Campra and Bernier, highlighting the techniques that shaped the French motet at the dawn of the eighteenth century: Italianate writing, rhetorical contrasts, text-painting, and an interplay of forces that reveals each composer’s unique voice.
With the 18 Leipzig Chorales, Bach brings together, at the end of his life, a fully realized reflection on the organ, the chorale, and counterpoint. On the Thomas organ in Namur, Martin Gester approaches these pages as a space for sonic invention, playing with styles, colours, and balances to create a dialogue between learned elaboration and expressive intensity.
This CD brings together Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian and the Café Zimmermann ensemble, conducted by Pablo Valetti. It offers a journey through the many facets of Vivaldi, with opera arias and concertos following one another like changing, expressive masks, in keeping with the spirit of Venice and its carnival.
With Pierre Gaultier de Marseille’s “Symphonies divisées par suites de tons” (Symphonies divided by tone sequences), the Cohaere ensemble revives a long-forgotten 17th-century French repertoire. A luminous and elegant interpretation, performed by a young ensemble that has already made a name for itself on the European scene.
With his ensemble Près de votre oreille (“Near your ear“), gamba player Robin Pharo devotes his new album Lighten mine eies to the singular world of William Lawes. Through elegies, psalms, and Harp Consorts, he explores the English composer’s daring dissonances and the shifting boundary between restitution, re-creation, and memory, in a project where research […]
With Natale Veneziano, Giuseppe Maletto and the choir of Il Pomo d’Oro rekindle the splendour of Venetian Christmas music, balancing liturgical fervour with musical daring. A luminous journey into the worlds of Gabrieli, Schütz, Monteverdi, and Cavalli, revealing the boundless creativity of Baroque Venice.
