Nostalgia ............... 31

This drive is part for me as perhaps other music lovers, those who have lulled in our youth our music sense and revealed in the 70 beauties of French baroque music at the time she woke up barely d a sleep of centuries.

Certainly the progress of musicology have for thirty years relegated this way of playing a bit slow and solemn and these modern instruments backstage.

The fact remains that we owe a debt of gratitude to Jean Francois Paillard and his team have created the spark that shines deep in our heartfelt memories réentendant these soundtracks on CD, after we tidy with devotion old cassettes in a shoe box.

For if musical science ruthlessly ordered the curiosities of these old tapes radius, it has not erased emotion.
This emotion which now seems sadly lacking in some engravings equipped with all the sacraments of the leading specialists in the reconstruction "the authentic".

To return to the disc content, here the beautiful and bucolic fanfares for the carousel of King and marching bands for the royal hunts.

These sumptuous suites benefit from interpretation to trumpet the late Maurice André. Imagine listening to this warlike and glowing music of the great rides Chantilly stables with their lords parading in festive costumes on their mounts in baroque choreography.

The suites for hunting horns evoke the paintings of Jean Baptiste Oudry, painter of royal hunting with his dogs in a pack behind hunted deer in the deep forests which then covered the Ile de France.
After the kill, the lords and ladies who join them after bleeding beast find themselves as in a De Troy scenery near a hamlet for a rustic lunch as the campaign resonates barking dogs.

Well I digress but the sumptuous sounds of brass and really wonderful harmonies dance suites they show are a real remedy against gloom.

After Mouret, lyric tragedy is invited to the menu and dance suite of Amadis, "ladies of the Opera" are a succession superb French overture, arias demons, tender minuets, martial tunes punctuated bursts of trumpets, all of this borrowing melodic genius whose great Baptist had the secret.

A real pleasure that I enjoyed with a little nostalgia despite the joyful side of these suites.
This disk could also serve as good experience for the younger ones who might discover these pioneers recordings, somewhat like those of Claudio Scimone Vivaldi at the time.

It's a bit a male treasure that can be purchased at low prices.