Kingsman: Le Cercle D'or

Most of Haydn's concertos are early works, written in the years immediately before or after his engagement at the Esterhazy court in 1761. During that time, he composed four violin concertos, of which three-all except Hob.VIIa, No.2 in D major - survive, none of them in autograph form. Hob.VIIa No.3, in A major turned up only in 1949.

Le policier Urbain Malot et la gendarme Eloïse Bouquet enquêtent sur une série de morts inexpliquées. Un étudiant est tombé du toit d'un immeuble en construction et le cadavre d'une femme est retrouvé dans une forêt près de Toulouse alors qu'une agente d'entretien, témoin d'un meurtre, a pris la fuite. Les indices les mènent vers un adversaire redoutable. Prix DNA du Festival sans nom 2021. …

With this CD of arias by Johann Christian Bach, male soprano Philippe Jaroussky edges further afield from the Baroque repertoire in which he has made his reputation, moving into the Classical period. A 2007 album, Carestini, was devoted to arias sung by the legendary castrato, including music by Gluck (from early in his career), Handel, Graun, and Hasse, and offered some excursions slightly beyond the Baroque, but J.C. Bach wrote the solidly Classical operas seria and concert arias represented here after Carestini's death, between 1760 and 1779.