Krisy Seul

This set includes two of the rarest and hardest to find of all recordings: the 1958-59 version of the Bach Cello Suites by Janos Starker – the one everyone says his later recordings cannot match – and the extremely beautiful performance of Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas and partitas – the one that Japanese collectors pay 3-digit dollar prices for – in outstanding EMI Digital Re-Masterings.

Let yourself be transported by a troupe of 20 acrobats and dancers in a new, bright and unifying universe filled with spectacular visual effects in the musical and poetic atmosphere of the grand Fiori! Imagine magical landscapes and dive into this world of sensations as one goes through a dream, without a known itinerary. Let yourself be led into this adventure where the barriers of the spirit are falling and where everyone meets for an evening celebrating music, love and freedom! Critically acclaimed and acclaimed by the public during his most recent visit to Montreal, the show will be presented in residency in Quebec City on the stage of the Capitole Theater on June 20, 2019 and will also be back at Théâtre St-Denis on September 2019. Embark on this fabulous journey!

For her ninth recording project on Glossa, the Berlin-based American harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson is joined by her Finnish colleagues Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin) and Lauri Pulakka (cello). With this same setup which they are keen to call the Jones Band they have previously unearthed works for the label by Richard Jones and Giovanni Battista Somis. The new recording is centred on François Francur, a celebrated member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi and of Le Concert Spirituel in France, and co- director, later in his career, with François Rebel, of the Paris Opéra. The ten violin sonatas on the present double album represent the complete Premier Livre de sonates à violon seul et basse continue, published in Paris in 1720.

Les mélomanes seront aux anges, à l'écoute de cette nouvelle version des Pièces de clavecin seul et en concert de Jean-Philippe Rameau, où de jeunes instrumentistes français réunis autour de la claveciniste Blandine Rannou y montrent une insolente santé musicale. Cette réalisation pétille de verdeur et d'enthousiasme, où la plénitude sonore est totale : les timbres sont bien équilibrés, et jamais on ne s'ennuie à l'audition de cet enregistrement dominé par Blandine Rannou – professeur de basse continue au conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris et claveciniste de l'ensemble Il Seminario Musicale. Un agréable moment musical en perspective.

Dupont wrote Les Heures Dolentes ('The Mournful Hours') whilst suffering and then recuperating from tuberculosis. The suggestive subtitles of the fourteen movements reflect a physical and mental journey through convalescence at a spa, from the peacefulness of 'Evening Falls inside the Bedroom', the early optimism of 'Sunshine in the Garden' and 'A Lady Friend Has Come with Some Flowers', the ambiguities of 'The Doctor', the eerie resignation of 'Death Lurks' and the sinister sonorities and rhythms of 'Sleepless Night - Hallucinations'. Fortunately Dupont survives and the work finishes ……

Le sonate per violino e basso continuo di Giovanni Antonio Guido (1675-1728 ca.) costituiscono un’importante testimonianza della diffusione della sonata italiana in Francia nella prima metà del Settecento. Nato a Genova, Guido si trasferì a Napoli verso la fine del XVII secolo per entrare a studiare come violinista presso il Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini. Completato il suo apprendistato intorno al 1690, entrò a far parte della Cappella Reale di Napoli, ma intorno al 1702 fu tra i primi musicisti napoletani a trasferirsi a Parigi. Le sei sonate pubblicate a Parigi nel 1726 e dedicate al Duca d’Orléans, si caratterizzano per una felice sintesi del virtuosismo italiano e dell’eleganza francese, uno stile che avrà un’influenza decisiva sui musicisti della generazione successiva.