Classical Music

Classical Music

The Deepest Desire

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

This triptych devoted to the music of Guillaume de Machaut is important in several respects: firstly, L’Amoureus Tourment was the very first recording of the young Marc Mauillon, who has since made a remarkable career, and not just in early music. Then again, each of these volumes has received massive critical acclaim, starting with the Diapason d’Or awarded in 2008 for Le Remède de Fortune. Lastly, this music that remains so alive 700 years after it was conceived, is conveyed by an ensemble of musicians who have contributed – each in their own area – to its restoration at the very highest level. Foremost among them are the harpist Angélique Mauillon, flautist Pierre Hamon, and vielle-player Vivabiancaluna Biffi.

Mu´sica Callada – The Music of Silence. Is this a provocation? A challenge? Or perhaps a stylistic exercise? For Mompou, none of all that was the case. He was simply reacting against his time, taking refuge from it, and he considered this solo piano cycle to be his most accomplished work. His universe is based on the mystical framework he constructs around one of the verses of the Spiritual Canticle of St John of the Cross: ‘Night stilled at the awakening of dawn, hushed music, echoing solitude...’ ‘With this fascinating world as the starting point,’ explains Guillaume Coppola, ‘I wanted to reflect it in the mirror of more “music of silence”: partly by choosing works by composers whose influence Mompou had personally acknowledged, partly by freely associating other pieces that seem to share this world and to respond to each other.’