Raphael Chirbes

With each new album, the Stradivari collection invites you to discover another unique instrument lovingly preserved and housed at the Museum of Music in Paris, such as the magnificent 1734 Guarneri cello and the 1855 Gebauhr grand piano, both of them exceptionally well suited to the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries. When these remarkable examples of European instrument-making are entrusted to performers as adept as Raphaël Pidoux and Tanguy de Williencourt, the composer’s celebrated Sonatas of Opus 5 stand revealed as never before!

En septembre 1669, Raphaël Lévy se rend à Metz pour y acheter un shofar et du vin pour célébrer, le lendemain soir, le nouvel an juif. Ce même jour, à Glatigny, petit village situé sur la route qui mène de Boulay à Metz, Mangeotte Villemin s'aperçoit de la disparition de son fils, le petit Didier Le Moyne, âgé de trois ans. Un cavalier affirme avoir vu Raphaël Lévy portant un enfant sous son manteau. Tout s'éclaire …

The Ensemble Pygmalion directed by Raphaël Pichon commences its collaboration with Harmonia Mundi with this new recording of J.S. Bach’s lost music to the Köthener Trauermusik (Cöthen funeral music), BWV 244a. Founded in 2006 at the European Bach Festival, Ensemble Pygmalion is a combination of choir and orchestra - all young performers with experience of authentic instruments and period-informed performance. Its repertoire concentrates primarily on Johann Sebastian Bach and Jean-Philippe Rameau.