Quentin & Guillemain: Conversations Nevermind

• Jean-Baptiste Quentin (1690-Vers 1750): Sonates en trio et a quatre parties pour violons, (ou) flutes traversieres, viole et basse continue, Op. 12, Concerto
• 1I. Largo04:25
• 2I. Allegro02:05
• 3II. Adagio03:18
• 4III. Premiere et seconde aria06:05
• 5IV. Presto03:55
• Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770): Six sonates en quatuors, Op. 12, Sonate No. 3
• 6I. Allegro moderato03:43
• 7II. Larghetto05:01
• 8III. Aria (Gratioso)02:55
• 9IV. Allegro03:45
• Quentin: Sonates en trio et a quatre parties pour violons, (ou) flutes traversieres, viole et basse continue, Op. 8, Sonata No. 4
• 10I. Largo02:45
• 11II. Allegro02:26
• 12III. Gavota (Tendrement)02:30
• 13IV. Allegro02:12
• Guillemain: Second livre de sonates en quatuor, Op. 17, Sonata No. 4
• 14I. Allegro04:29
• 15II. Aria (Gratioso)04:40
• 16III. Presto03:31
• Quentin: Sonates en trio et a quatre parties pour violons, (ou) flutes traversieres, viole et basse continue, Op. 10, Sonata No. 5
• 17I. Adagio02:34
• 18II. Allegro01:55
• 19III. Premiere et seconde aria05:11
• 20IV. Vivement02:36
• Sonates en trio et a quatre parties pour violons, (ou) flutes traversieres, viole et basse continue, Op. 12, Concerto
• 21III. Adagio (Bonus Track)03:58
• Total Runtime01:13:59

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Nevermind is made up of four young musicians and friends whose passion for early music and for the influence of jazz and traditional music stimulated them to form an ensemble whose virtuosity is equalled only by their youthful impetuosity and their love of fine music . . . For its first disc, Nevermind tackles the treasures of the Baroque in the shape of two totally neglected French composers.

The first one, Jean-Baptiste Quentin, a dessus de violon at the Académie Royale de Musique (forerunner of the Paris Opéra), was a habitué of the Parisian salons, where he frequented Rameau among others. The second, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, studied in Italy before joining the court musicians at Versailles. Sometimes whimsical and often very complex in Guillemain, invariably lucid and classical in Quentin, their style nonetheless presents a common feature: the dominance of the Italian idiom.

Alpha Classics continues its discovery of young talents with this project conceived by the inspired musicians of Nevermind. Their credo is to introduce the widest possible audience to the riches of music that has been too long ignored.

Nevermind

NEVERMIND
is a young group of four musicians and friends from the Conservatoire Supérieur, Paris, whose love for early music and jazz and traditional music led them to come together to form an ensemble whose virtuosity equals their passion for the music they perform...

Thus, it is therefore natural and undeniable pleasure NEVERMIND was created to share the music they love and to reach the widest possible audience, transcending the quartet repertoire (flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord) of the 17th and 18th centuries. The many concerts given by the ensemble have only strengthened their convictions: the friendship that is blossoming between these four musicians shines with passion and the pleasure of playing, all supported by a striking complicity.

'There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ' said Van Gogh. It is this aspect of the artist, far from the image of demiurge that tends to lend him , that all NEVERMIND seeks to convey to the public: the music sharing and is not (no longer ) reserved for the elite or public Insider!

NEVERMIND defends the idea of a music transmitted through the gift of self and whose magic can not operate without the complicity of the public ... and this complicity is born with the most natural thing in the world: the smile.

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