French Baroque: Versailles 1700-1740 album by Dorothee Oberlinger was released Mar 01, 2011 on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi label.
The new recording by recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger with violinist and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky shows the turn of the musical era from the Renaissance to the Baroque in a kaleidoscope of newly conceived, experimental declamatory music by Italian masters that show passions such as love and hate, grief and joy, astonishment and longing for the first time in music.
It's been six years since these same performers got together to create one of the decade's more unusual experiments in musical alchemy. Beginning with the raw materials of early music and modern jazz, the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble joined with jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek to see what would happen when the proper measure of old music and new style were combined, shaped by the performers' considerable experience and collective aesthetic vision.