Bruno Philippe

Bruno Philippe, cello Thomas Dunford, archilute Keyvan Chemirani, percussion MARAIS, BACH, FORQUERAY, VIVALDI, BARBARA, COHEN AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS The Baroque era is a blessed age: making music among friends enlivened the daily life of all layers of the population and one readily hesitated to play transcriptions of "hit" tunes in fashion (composers themselves showed the way, signing transpositions for various ensembles of their scores).

The theorbo established itself as the ideal vector of this inventiveness, adored throughout society.

Instrumental construction evolved however and, driven by masters such as Bach or Vivaldi, the young cello gradually imposed itself against the venerable viola da gamba without fully replacing it – Marin Marais brings the viola to its apex in the first decades of the 18th century.

Friends in music, Thomas Dunford, Bruno Philippe and Keyvan Chemirani undoubtedly are.

They open the doors to us of times past but also the present, demonstrating that their hunger for plural music prevails today, with for example their very personal vision of Leonard Cohen or Barbara without forgetting their own compositions.