Des Tenebres a la Lumiere: Baroque Sonatas & Cantatas | Continuo Classics CC777816

Des Tenebres a la Lumiere: Baroque Sonatas & Cantatas

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Label: Continuo Classics

Cat No: CC777816

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 12th March 2021

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The voyage from “Darkness to Light” invites you to let yourself be transported to baroque land, through pieces of chamber music and sacred music.

For this album we collaborate with the soprano, Charlotte Ruby, whose tone of voice and theatricality echo our interpretation. Obviously, this project has become an original proposal: to offer the public, through the concertante pieces that we perform, a dialogue with equivalent virtuosities and sensibilities between the human voice and the instrumental voices.

The album is built around the theme of metamorphosis. Throughout the works, we are taken on a nocturnal journey: from lamentation to exaltation, from night to day towards a rebirth.

The first Lamentation by Joseph Hector Fiocco is emblematic of the programme we are offering. It has the particularity of not releasing the melancholy of the Leçons de Ténèbres by Couperin but rather of being in the lineage of opera composers. We have chosen to interpret the Sonata in A minor for flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord by Georg Philipp Telemann, whose dramatic intensity is impressive, the 24 variations by Theodor Schwartzkopff whose inventiveness and theme are a real spell, and the cantata by Antonio Vivaldi, All’ombra di sospetto, where the soprano dialogues in an equal range with the pardessus de viole.

Le Concerto d’Amour:
- Isabelle Quellier (pardessus de viole d’amour, viola da gamba)
- Jean-Pierre Nouhaud (violoncello d'amore)
- Marie Nouhaud (violone d’amore)
- Benoît Fallai (theorbo)

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