This recording comes at the appointed time: it confirms the return of
our contemporaries to the masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century, after
the explosion of Romanticism and the sophisticated harmonic experiments
that followed.
Of course, the way those earlier works used to be played was highly
questionable for an audience keenly interested in authenticity.
The repertory for this release is selected from the very first solo
cello concertos in France, those of Jean-Louis Duport, now little-known
but exciting discoveries for today’s audiences.
Raphaël Pidoux and Stradivaria play three of the finest among the six
extant works, which they perform according to the composer’s wishes,
with a string orchestra, supplemented by a few wind instruments in two
of them.
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