Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and the astonishing rhetorical power in her Trio Sonata in G Minor When Brossard was on his way back to Strasbourg in 1695 from one of his visits to Paris, he travelled with four trio sonatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre in his baggage. “She was so kind as to lend me her originals in order to copy them. They are enchanting, and if anybody needs evidence, he will find four individual parts in the same folder”. The music is now preserved in t

Iñaki Encina Oyón sheds light on a mysterious French poet Two of my favourite songs in our recording of French mélodies by Robert Dussaut are composed on poems of a certain Jean Maddus: L’Oracle and Adieux à l’étranger. Adriana González delivers these texts with exquisite taste, and during our preparation for the recording she confessed that she felt very connected to the poems as they are about two women. The first one asks an oracle about the true feelings of her lover, onl

Maria Antonia Walpurgis, the fascinating librettist of three cantatas recorded by Ensemble Diderot By now the importance and influence of the baroque music composed and performed in Dresden is well documented in writings and recordings. One needs only to reflect on outstanding composers and musicians such as Johann Adolph Hasse and his wife Faustina Bordoni, Johann David Heinichen, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Georg Pisendel, Silvius Leopold Weiss and Johann Joachim Quantz to n