Montéclair Concerts For Baroque Flute
Navona, 2023
8/10
Listen to Montéclair Concerts For Baroque Flute
The Opus Project, i.e. Joanna Marsden, Christophe Gauthier, Margaret Little and Daniel Zuluaga, explore the work of Michel Pignolet de Montéclair across 2 discs of creative baroque chamber music.
Disc 1 opens with the flowing interaction of “Premier Concert”, where Marsden’s eloquent baroque flute dances around the warm playing of Zuluaga’s proficient theorbo, and “Deuxiéme Concert” follows with both intimacy and adventurousness populating the calm melodies and Gauthier’s skilled harpsichord.
The back half of the listen welcomes the dreamy climate of the highly meticulous “Troisiéme Concert”, where Little’s viola da gamba is particularly luminous, while “Quatriéme Concert” exits in B-Flat with swift and agile playing across the 12 lively chapters.
A listen that pairs Italian dexterity and detail with the meaningful French language, the flute, viola da gamba, harpsichord, and theorbo put a fresh coat of paint on centuries-old pieces for a modern appeal.
Travels well with: Invocation; Meira Warshauer- Ocean Calling