//Couperin
Apothéoses & autres sonades
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.....
gli incogniti
Amandine Beyer,violin & musical direction
Alba Roca, violin
Baldomero Barciela, viola da gamba
Filipa Meneses, viola da gamba
Francesco Romano, theorbo
Anna Fontana, harpsichord
Recording: january 2014 in the Théâtre des Quatre Saisons of Gradignan (France)
Booklet
Musikzen | Albéric Lagier
«Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti are a bit like Couperin, using those famously "gouts-réunis" and a feigned neutrality as a pretext to unleash an original style, full of wit and elegance. “My ancestors will always be more admirable than imitable. Thus, by a right granted to me by my neutrality, I sail under the fortunate auspices that have guided me thus far.” Couperin wrote it. Amandine Beyer lived it.»
All Gli Incogniti albums
