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A l'occasion d'une nuit blanche à la pointe de la Douane, à Venise, l'auteure réfléchit à sa personne, à l'enfermement, au mouvement, au voyage, à l'intimité, à l'identité, à l'entre-deux entre Orient et Occident. …

Biarritz, 1910. À la tête de sa propre maison de couture, la jeune et brillante Éléonore se démarque par son talent et sa créativité. Fraîchement divorcée, elle place son ambition et sa liberté avant toutes choses. Jusqu'à sa rencontre avec un aristocrate russe, venu passer quelques jours sur la côte. Grigori Meletski est fiancé mais sa peau a l'odeur du désir à l'état pur. Tandis qu'au loin gronde la Première Guerre mondiale, un lien se tisse entre eux, qui va mettre à mal toutes les certitudes d'Éléonore. …

Jordi Savall is painting Monteverdi in the colours of the Mediterranean. The Catalan maestro has entrusted the title role of this foundational work of Western music to a remarkable baritone: the magnificent Marc Mauillon embodies Orfeo, his resonant and ductile voice in perfect unison with the conductor’s musical vision. Here, a warm performance and rich sound reign supreme!

As early as 1761, a year before his masterpiece Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck largely renewed another musical genre, the ballet, with his adaptation of a work by Molière for Viennese audiences: Don Juan. Another work, Sémiramis, followed a year later. These two works are innovative in that they offer, for the first time, a coherent narrative in which all the resources of the orchestra are put at the service of expressiveness. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations bring out all the nuances of these scores, reminding us that a quarter of a century before Mozart, the stages of Europe were treated to all the evocative power of music by another outstanding figure: Christoph Willibald Gluck.

After the critical success of the first volume of Beethoven’s symphonies, Jordi Savall now offers us from the Sixth to the Ninth.This latest publication crowns a nearly two-year world tour and confirms the extent to which the director renews our vision of these most famous works. The Concert des Nations shows that it also knows how to magnify the repertoire of the early 19th century, which will be confirmed by a forthcoming Schubert album.

“…this live 2006 performance… is given in its original orchestral form in the location for which it was intended - the chapel of Santa Cueva in Cádiz… Played on period instruments the performance… expertly motivated by Jordi Savall, achieving a fine blend of solemnity and austerity with intimacy of feeling. …this is the ultimate in authentic performance.” (BBC Music Magazine)