Couperin: Apothéoses & autres Sonades Gli incogniti & Amandine Beyer

• François Couperin (1668-1733): La superbe, Sonade en trio. Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon Ms. Mus. 129.949
• 1I.01:55
• 2II.00:47
• 3III. Très lentement01:26
• 4IV. Légèrement01:25
• 5V. Air tendre01:20
• 6VI. Gayement00:57
• Concert instrumental sur le titre d’Apothéose
• 7I. Lulli aux Champs Elisés (Gravement)02:31
• 8II. Air pour les mêmes (Gracieusement)02:00
• 9III. Vol de Mercure aux Champs Elisés (Trés viste)00:28
• 10III. Descente d'Apollon qui vient offrir son violon à Lulli (Noblement)02:31
• 11IV. Rumeur souteraine causée par les auteurs contemporains de Lulli (Viste)00:30
• 12V. Plaintes des mêmes (Dolemment)02:17
• 13VI. Enlévement de Lulli au Parnasse (Très légèrement)01:02
• 14VII. Accüeil entre Doux et Agard (Largo)02:28
• 15VIII. Remerciment de Lulli à Apollon (Gracieusement)02:09
• 16IX. Elégamment, sans lenteur01:15
• 17X. Légèrement01:25
• 18XI. Lulli, joüant le sujet, et Corelli l'accompagnant (Air léger / Second air)02:47
• 19XII. Gravement02:11
• 20XIII. Saillie (Vivement)01:37
• 21XIV. Rondement01:28
• 22XV. Vivement01:42
• Le Parnasse, ou L’apothéose de Corelli, Grande Sonade en Trio. Paris, 1724
• 23I. Corelli au piéd du Parnasse (Gravement)01:45
• 24II. Corelli charmé de la bonne réception qu'on lui fait au Parnasse (Gaÿment)02:04
• 25III. Corelli buvant à la source D'hypocrêne (Notes égales et coulées, et modérément)02:08
• 26IV. Entouziasme de Corelli causé par les eaux D'hypocrêne (Vivement)01:00
• 27V. Corelli aprés son Entouziasme s'endort (Notes égales et coulées)02:13
• 28VI. Les muses reveillent Corelli, et le placent auprés D'Apollon (Vivement)00:40
• 29VII.Remerciment de Corelli (Gaÿment)02:13
• La Sultane* Sonade en quatuor. Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon Ms. Mus. 129.949
• 30I.03:18
• 31II.01:48
• 32III. Air (Tendrement)01:00
• 33IV.01:04
• 34V. Légèrement00:48
• 35VI.01:04
• Total Runtime57:16

Info for Couperin: Apothéoses & autres Sonades

The ensemble Gli incogniti, led by Amandine Beyer, makes their harmonia mundi début with this album of chamber music by François Couperin. When he published his two Apothéoses in memory of two great masters of music in 1724-25, François Couperin was asserting his desire to promote a meeting of the French and Italian styles – from a very Gallic point of view, naturally.

The idea was to convince the French Muses that henceforth one could say sonade and cantade in their language – a strategy already pursued in the much earlier La Sultane and La Superbe. But, far from blindly imitating his idols, Couperin takes inspiration from their styles and adapts them to his own brio.

The result is a delight for all to share with the musicians of Gli Incogniti and Amandine Beyer, whose first harmonia mundi recording this is.

Amandine Beyer, violin
Gli incogniti

Amandine Beyer
Since some years ago, Amandine Beyer is recognized as a reference in the interpretation baroque violin repertoire. Her recording of the Sonatas & Partitas by J. S. Bach in 2012, has been awarded the best international critics (Diapason d’or de l’année, Choc de Classica de l’année, Editor’s choice de Gramophone, Prix Academie Charles Cros, Excepcional de Scherzo....). The work in this masterpiece is being continued with the performance "Partita 2", choreographed and danced by Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz.

She plays regularly in the most important halls and festivals worldwide (Théatre du Chatelet, Festival de Sablé, Innsbruck Festwochen, Konzerthaus de Viena...). She shares her time between between different music ensembles were she takes part off : les Cornets Noirs, the duos with Pierre Hantai, Kristian Bezuidenhout or Laurance Beyer and her own ensemble: Gli Incogniti (their CD's devoted to Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Corelli's Concerti Grossi have been welcomed by the international critic as new highlights in the performance of this repertoire).

Her other passion is teaching, giving lessons at the ESMAE of Porto (Portugal), as well as masterclasses worldwide (France, Taiwan, Brasil, USA, Canada). Since 2010 she teachs baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland.

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