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Harmonia artificiosa

F. I. Biber, H. Schütz, Francesco Cavalli

Splendid and ambitious, the Harmonia artificiosa is a work that reveals all the talent of its composer and marks the rising virtuosity of the violin. A collection of seven sonatas [...]

Haendel and Nature

G.F Haendel

Silete Venti Naturalist Motet “Silete Venti” is a five-part motet for a soprano voice. It is probably inspired by Handel’s return to Italy in 1729. Recognized as one of the [...]

Nigra Sum

C. Monteverdi and B. Attahir

“Nigra Sum sed formosa” (I am black and I am beautiful) is a meeting between earthly and heavenly, gravity and elevation, past and present. Taken from the Song of Songs, [...]

Don Juan – Gluck – Mozart

C. W. von Gluck - W. A. Mozart

C. W. von Gluck – W. A. Mozart It is not a play, it is not an opera, it is not a symphonic poem, it is a “ballet of action”.Combining [...]

Paris 1750, Fragments

J.-P. Rameau, P. Royer, J.-J. Cassanéa de Mondonville, C. W. Glück, J.-M. Leclair, P. Gaviniès, J. A. Hasse, A. VIvaldi

In Paris, at the dawn of the 18th century, the Concert spirituel was created by the oboist Anne Danican Philidor.During the Parisian musical evenings of the Concert spirituel in 1750, [...]

The Four Seasons

A. Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are the first four concertos to open the collection of twelve violin concertos composed between 1723 and 1725 entitled Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The confrontation [...]

Music for a while

H. Purcell, J. Playford, W. Shakespeare, J. Dryden

Feelings and torments, who could evoke them better than Henry Purcell?Passions and storms, who better to describe them than William Shakespeare? These two artists placed their genius at the service [...]

Magicians in the time of the Sun King

Lully, Desmarets, Charpentier, Collasse, Rossi, Cavalli​

Paris, 1650. The regency of Anne of Austria was gradually ending, between the rebellion and the Thirty Years’ War. Cardinal Mazarin organized Peace in Europe through the signing of the [...]

For the Kings of Rome

G.F Haendel

Rediscover the cantatas of Georg Friedrich Handel through the prism of his trip to Italy. With a program that varies in its forms and emotions, imagine and explore Rome at [...]

La Gamme

M. Marais

Three musicians, one scale. A masterpiece of simplicity, emotions and subtlety. Marin Marais created this masterpiece that deployed all of his expressive palette. “La Gamme” (1723) by Marin Marais is [...]

Constellation Bach

J.S Bach

Created with high standards and sensitivity, “Constellation Bach” is a selection of pieces that trace the evolution of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, up to the passing on of [...]

Delirium amoris

G.F Haendel & G. Muffat

Italian influence When Handel arrived in Rome at the end of 1706, opera was no longer authorized there, deemed profane and scandalous for the Vatican. The secular nobility then turned [...]

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

G.F Haendel

Handel and Italy In 1706, Handel began a trip to Italy, where the geopolitical situation was turned upside down. The great Catholic monarchies were fighting over a divided Europe. He [...]

Leçons de Ténèbres

F. Couperin

Rediscover “Les Leçons de Ténèbres”, François Couperin’s sacred and profoundly influential work. Created for Holy Week in the 18th century, the “Leçons de Ténèbres” are intended to prepare the faithful [...]

Stabat Mater

G.B Pergolese

“This divine poem of pain, moving and profound” according to Bellini, conveys extreme emotion: it is not the swan song of an artist at the gates of death, but a [...]