This album features music by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier and Louis Antoine Dornel, two composers who are little or badly known today, to help modify the perception of 18th-century French music.
Interpretation
The ensemble Tripla Concordia performs on period instruments, including recorders after P. Bressan and T. Stanesby, a transverse flute after M. Lot, and an oboe after I. Denner.
Composer Biography
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, a French composer, had one of the most successful and prolific music careers of the 18th century, producing over a hundred opus numbers.
Composer Biography
Louis Antoine Dornel, unlike Boismortier, pursued his career within the more rigid circle of organ masters, serving as organist at Sainte-Madeleine-en-la-Cité and Sainte-Geneviève.
Performer Biography
Tripla Concordia, named after a 1677 London music collection, has performed at major international festivals and collaborated with musicians like Frans Brüggen and Jordi Savall.
Composer Biography
Dornel was renowned as a great organist, theoretician, and contrapuntist, and held the prestigious position of maître de musique at the Académie Française from 1725 to 1742.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Boismortier, like Telemann, was an innovator with a deep understanding of the instruments he composed for, and was the first French composer to use the Italian term 'concerto' and write concertos for solo instruments in France.
You might also enjoy...
Zefiro soave, Vol. 1
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Telemann & Molter: Flute and Oboe Quartets
Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Instrumental Music
Lamento
Calcutta 1789 - À la croisée de l'Europe et de l'Inde
