L'Achéron
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Special offer. Cipriano de Rore: Ancor che col partire
Ricercar 35th anniversary release
Marie Bournisien (harp), Mariana Flores (soprano), Paulin Bündgen (counter-tenor), Bernard Foccroulle (organ), Miguel Henry (lute), Jean Tubéry (cornet), Juliette Perret (soprano), Jean Tubéry (recorder)
Cappella Mediterranea, Clematis, L'Achéron, Vox Luminis, Doulce Mémoire, Chœur de Chambre...
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The programme is planned imaginatively: groups of five or six contrasting pieces in compatible tonalities. The treatment of the individual dances is imaginative, too...The solemn pavans are... —
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L’Achéron’s playing style cements the [large-scale] impression: majestic and amorous of tone, with a soft-edged, ample yet transparent-textured sound that’s humanised further through little... —
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L’Achéron perform stylishly and gracefully, adding well-chosen and effective wind doublings to Bach’s basic string texture. The low pitch they use robs the sound of a little brightness, but... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Special offer. Orlando Gibbons: Fancies for the Viols
RecommendedFrancois Joubert-Caillet (viol)
L’Achéron
The long, intricate lines of Gibbons’s sumptuous music for viols are stunningly rendered. The playing is alive to subtle phrasings and imitative counterpoint. —
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Building a Library, October 2018, Also Recommended
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Certainly, if you are after comprehensiveness – a complete collection of Marais’s Deuxième livre – then this release from Ricercar provides a beautiful object...The recording clearly seeks variety... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Marais had given up playing by the time he wrote these works, and reportedly preferred to tend his garden. The pieces are short and full of contrast, flowing one into another with meditative... —
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Special offer. Boesmans, Bartholomée, Foccroulle & Mernier: For Early Instruments
Bernard Foccroulle, Clematis, InAlto, L'Achéron, Ensemble Alarius
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