Les Folies Françoises, Patrick Cöhen-Akenine & Beatrice Martin – Portraits Croisés (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:31 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoMadMusic
François Couperin, whose 350th birthday we celebrate this year, defined himself as a creator of musical portraits. The eloquent and sometimes exotic titles of many of these pieces bear witness to this. From the Nations to the Collected Tastes, as well as the Royal Concerts and the harpsichord repertoire, Les Folies françoises have painted throughout this album a portrait that pays homage to one of the greatest composers of the Sun King’s court.
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Béatrice Martin – Les Sauvages (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:00 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Cypres
Les Sauvages by Béatrice Martin carries you beyond the seriousness of this world towards the celestial delights of an ‘oriental’ dream drawn in Indian ink. For her first solo disc, Béatrice Martin has chosen one of the most prestigious harpsichords made by the famous Ruckers of Antwerp, an instrument until then never used in a recording, and an encounter of truly heartfelt emotion. With this alchemy of the ineffable – that of the greatest artistes of this world –
Béatrice Martin harmonises the sensitivity, the fervour and the fantasies of the uncontested masters of the French harpsichord school: apart from these veritable ‘hits’ of the French baroque that are Les Sauvages, L’Egyptienne and La Passacaille d’Armide, this unique disc is a waking dream. Coloured with that exoticism so dear to Rameau, Couperin, Forqueray and yet also Royer and Anglebert, it brightens, with its ‘Lights’ of the kingdom of France, this exquisite world of a long-awaited elsewhere, this dream of the Phoenix come from an unexpected ‘Orient’. Listeners, yield yourselves – a thousand and one nights – to the infinitely matchless touch of one of the finest international harpsichord players.
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