London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy
La Rêveuse
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
La Rêveuse’s off the beaten track programme illustrates the Corellian spin on British taste. Perhaps the most immediately attractive item is a concerto for descant recorder, pitched in Dmajor,...
London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy
La Rêveuse
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
La Rêveuse’s off the beaten track programme illustrates the Corellian spin on British taste. Perhaps the most immediately attractive item is a concerto for descant recorder, pitched in Dmajor,...
About
In the early eighteenth century, London become the capital of Italian opera. The 1720s witnessed a feverish demand for music that led many foreign virtuosos to move to the city. Concert-loving Londoners relished the last sonatas in the style of the old master Corelli and the works of the youthful newcomer Handel. On their first recording for harmonia mundi, La Rêveuse invite us to relive this lively scene.
Contents and tracklist
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
- Benjamin Perrot, Florence Bolton
- La Rêveuse
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2020Editor's Choice
Christmas 2020
La Rêveuse’s off the beaten track programme illustrates the Corellian spin on British taste. Perhaps the most immediately attractive item is a concerto for descant recorder, pitched in Dmajor, by William Babell, included in the composer’s Op. 3, c1730. Sebastien Marq plays with refinement, affection and virtuosity, features which enhance every item in the programme.
November 2020
La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making...The theme of the disc makes for a lovely coherence between works... There is enough variety, both timbral and affectual, to keep one in sonic rapture...Yet it is the individual and plentiful moments of beauty that make this album so enthralling.
