Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe – The Majestic
Marin Marais, Jean Desfontaines, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Sébastien Le Camus… a few airs sérieux, a few drinking songs and the majesty of the bass viol.A programme …
French Music
Jean de La Fontaine – A Life of Impertinence!
La Fontaine and music: the fable could be that of a missed encounter. While so many writers of his time knew how to build close …
La Bourrasque – Around Sainte-Colombe
Very few details of the life of Jean de Sainte-Colombe are known to us. Yet he is one of the finest viol players of all …
Nicolas de Grigny – Genius of the French Organ
Nicolas de Grigny (1672 – 1703) shared the fate of many brilliant artists who left too soon. The simplicity of his known existence might conceal …