The first in a new Fuga Libera strand dedicated to masters of the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Brussels, this CD, highlights the art of Luc Bergé, presenting two important masterpieces of chamber music.They are performed in octet and in sextet on ancient French horns by the soloist of the l'Orchestre des Champs Elysées and seven of his disciples. Léon Dubois reigned as director of the Brussels Conservatory but was also a very fine, and pretty Wagnerian, fin-de-siècle composer. His octet is performed on eight horns from Van Cauwelaert's workshop, the main competitor of Mahillon, Wagner's official supplier. These horns, made in two types, from Liège and from Ghent, are aesthetically in-between the French and German horn styles, so very different in those days. Mengal's Octet was written between 1817 and 1820 in Paris by the first director of the Royal Conservatory of Ghent.The Octet is performed on six authentic horns of the French style.