Arlequin Philosophe / Pedro Memelsdorff
The Caribbean Baroque of Kourou
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht, 1 September 2024
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About this concert
Kourou, a village in French Guiana. It is 1763 and an organized migration campaign brings roughly 11,000 farmers, craftsmen and artists from Europe to the French colony. The goal: to develop a prosperous, scientifically advanced and culturally vibrant community that would be at the forefront of overseas modernity. Political squabbling and logistical upheaval led to failure.
Arlequin Philosophe, Pedro Memelsdorff's new Baroque ensemble, brings out the awkward truth to the rhythm of African love songs, solemn funeral music, dazzling salon hits and religious repertoire from the Guyan jungle.
Programme
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Jerry Goldsmith
Papillon
1929-2004 -
Traditional
La Retraite – L’Ordonnance
Les Gardes FrançoisesSaintonge 18th century -
Anonymous
Adiosso me de go
Suriname 18th century -
Anonymous
Consécration (Suivons l’amour)
Pater (Musette de Desjardins)
Offertoire (Agréable solitude)
(from: Messe en cantiques à l’usage des nègres, Paris 1763)Cayenne 18th century -
François-Joseph Gossec
Symphonie periodique 1
Allegro1734-1829 -
Philipp Joseph Hinner
Sonate op. 6 no. 1
Rondeau1754-after 1805 -
de Tremais
Sonate op. 4 no. 2
Tempo di Minuetto
Sonate op. 1 no. 1
Adagio-Presto
Sonate op. 4 no. 3
Tempo di Minuetto
Allegrofl. 1728/51 -
Philipp Joseph Hinner
Op. 7
Dors, mon enfant
Allegro -
de Tremais
Sonate op. 4 no. 5
Allegro -
Philipp Joseph Hinner
Op. 7
Presto -
Giovanni Giornovichi
Violin Concerto no. 16
Rondò1747-1804 -
Adolphe Blaise
Pour nous est fait le plaisir
(from: Isabelle et Gertrude, 1765)?-1772 -
Pablo Ortiz / Pedro Memelsdorff
Sautrelles, ou l’épidémie
1956- / 1959- -
François-Joseph Gossec
Grande Messe des morts
Dies Irae
Lacrymosa -
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Confitebor tibi, Domine
Memor erit – Intellectus – Gloria Patri1741-1813 -
Jerry Goldsmith
Papillon
Musicians
- Kathrin Hottiger soprano
- Markéta Cukrová mezzosoprano
- Marco Angiolini tenor
- Marco Saccardin baritone, theorbo
- Théotime Langlois de Swarte solo violin
- Ayano Shigematsu violin
- Alaia Ferrán, Alessandro D’Amico viola
- Hyngun Cho cello
- Yuval Atlas double bass
- Jean-Christophe Dijoux harpsichord, organ
- Angéline Sanfourche harp
- Johanna Bartz traverso
- Miriam Jorde Hompanera, Olga Marulanda oboe
- Pepe Reche, Vincent Serra Primo natural horn
- Claire-Ombeline Muhlmeyer, Lili Soletti, Adrien Muller sackbut
- Daniel Munarrit, Dídac Moral, Albert López percussions
- Maite Ruiz de Erentxun accordion
- Pedro Memelsdorff musical direction
About the performers
The newly founded ensemble Arlequin Philosophe gathers some of the finest and most celebrated Europe-based young musicians specialized in Baroque and late-Baroque repertoires. Its first performances in Poland and Germany have proven Arlequin Philosophe’s repertoire to be unique in its variety and thought-provoking intensity, as expressed by the many positive reviews in Berlin/Potsdam, Wroclaw, Washington, New Orleans and New York.
Music director, recorder player and musicologist Pedro Memelsdorff has long been a member of Jordi Savall’s Hesperion XXI and of a duo with Andreas Staier. In 1987 he founded the ensemble Mala Punica, specialized in late medieval polyphony. With these ensembles, or as a guest conductor, he has performed in most European countries, in the USA, central and south America, Israel and Japan.