During the Parisian musical evenings of the Concert spirituel in 1750, one could hear a few pages by the great Lully, then by the innovative Rameau, and a few notes of sacred music alternating with the latest fashionable cantata. This was called the 'Fragments', the idea being to retain only the best, or rather what was most popular in those years.
In order to perform the music of the Concert spirituel in the spirit of the programmes of the time - that is to say, with a pronounced taste for virtuoso composers, modernity and Italy, while retaining the best of the French works of the past - we have constructed a festive best-of, conceived for a chamber orchestra and a voice, organised around several key works and the idea of virtuosity, as a moment, a gesture of pure musical pleasure.
