Bruno Philippe

Bruno Philippe, cello Thomas Dunford, archlute Keyvan Chemirani, percussion MARAIS, BACH, FORQUERAY, VIVALDI, BARBARA, COHEN ET COMPOSITIONS ORIGINALES The Baroque era was a blessed age…

Bruno Philippe, cello

Thomas Dunford, archlute

Keyvan Chemirani, percussion

MARAIS, BACH, FORQUERAY, VIVALDI, BARBARA, COHEN ET COMPOSITIONS ORIGINALES

The Baroque era was a blessed age: making music among friends was part of everyday life for every layer of society, and people thought nothing of playing transcriptions of fashionable "hits" (composers themselves led the way, signing arrangements of their scores for different ensembles). The theorbo established itself as the ideal vehicle for this inventiveness, adored throughout society. Instrument making was nonetheless evolving and, carried forward by masters such as Bach and Vivaldi, the young cello gradually asserted itself over the venerable viola da gamba without entirely replacing it. Marin Marais brought the viol to its peak in the first decades of the eighteenth century.

Friends in music, Thomas Dunford, Bruno Philippe and Keyvan Chemirani are unquestionably so. They open the doors to past times but also to the present, demonstrating that their thirst for plural musics prevails today, with, for example, their very personal take on Leonard Cohen or Barbara, not to mention their own compositions.