Raphael Stella

After ‘Stravaganza d’amore’, their superb album of late sixteenth-century Florentine music, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion return to Italy, this time to Mantua. Here they offer us their reading of one of the peaks of sacred music from this period: Monteverdi’s Vespers. Revealing like no other interpreters the poignant interiority of these pieces, they bring out to the full their inherent sense of theatre. An overwhelming experience.

After ‘Stravaganza d’amore’, their superb album of late sixteenth-century Florentine music, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion return to Italy, this time to Mantua. Here they offer us their reading of one of the peaks of sacred music from this period: Monteverdi’s Vespers. Revealing like no other interpreters the poignant interiority of these pieces, they bring out to the full their inherent sense of theatre. An overwhelming experience.

Matteo da Perugia - Chansons - Tetraktys (2016) {Olive-Et'cetera KTC 1918}
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Classical / Medieval / Early Renaissance / Early Music

Matteo da Perugia is one of the outstanding composer personalities in Italy at the transition between the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Yet we know little about his life. We do not know the date of his birth, not even the year, nor is it certain whether the suffix “da Perugia” really means that Matteo came from this city. Relatively well documented, however, is his compositional work: all the compositions that are attributable with certainty to Matteo have survived in the same Codex.

Après une expérience sur scène de deux ans et une pause de six mois due à la crise sanitaire, le trio de Sylvain Beuf formé en 2018 avec l’organiste Damien Argentieri et le batteur Fabrice Moreau, a reporté l’enregistrement de son album. Cette pause leur a permis de mûrir le projet. Six mois plus tard c’est un quartet qui entre au studio de Meudon avec le pianiste et accordéoniste Tom Olivier-Beuf, fils du saxophoniste. En invité, le jeune guitariste Raphaël Olivier que l'on retrouve sur une revisite de Summertime. "Enregistrer ce nouvel album en studio m’a rappelé que la musique ne meurt jamais, qu’elle renaît perpétuellement en nous et encore plus au moment où une brume silencieuse et masquée commençait à ensevelir" dixit Sylvain Beuf.