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Ensemble Stravaganza
Early music ensemble
Artistic direction : Domitille Gilon & Thomas Soltani
Programs
SEASON 2012 – 2013
Ensemble Stravaganza – Domitille Gilon & Thomas Soltani
45 Boulevard Rabelais – 94100 Saint Maur des Fossés – www.ensemble-stravaganza.com
Contact : Thomas Soltani : 0033 6 52 06 84 67 [email protected]
Stravaganza is a baroque formation mainly dedicated
to chamber music of the seventeenth and eighteenth century
for one or two high-pitched instruments. Europe in that period
was a breeding ground for talented and virtuoso composers,
some of whom are still unknown today.
Brought together by the violinist Domitille Gilon and the
harpsichordist Thomas Soltani, musicians take part with enthusiasm
and dedication to this musical and human adventure, which makes
each concert a unique and rewarding experience for the audience.
The Stravaganza Ensemble includes various formations,
with musicians coming from the best European conservatories
("Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique" of Lyon,
"Conservatorium van Amsterdam", "Conservatoire Supérieur" of Paris).
They each perform regularly in famous orchestras :
La Simphonie du Marais (Hugo Reyne), Ensemble Sagittarius (Michel Laplénie),
Opéra Fuoco (Jay Bernfeld), Gli Incogniti (Amandine Beyer),
Les Ambassadeurs (Alexis Kossenko), Pulcinella (Ophélie Gaillard) etc.
During the development of their career, members of the
Ensemble have benefited from the advice and support of major
artists such as Gustav Leonhardt, Christophe Rousset, Lucy van Dael,
Jordi Savall - among others...
The Stravaganza Ensemble is regularly invited to numerous
international festivals, in France (Festival baroque du Pays du Mont Blanc,
Musicale Internationale de Guil Durance, Festival Jeunes-Talents-Paris...),
in Scotland (Sypert concert series), in the Netherlands (Fabulous Fringe,
Oude-Muziek Utrecht...), in Germany, in the United Kingdom, U.S.A...
The ensemble has been awarded in 2011 bronze medal of the
Academy of Literature and Arts. They also won the third prize
and the special prize of critics and medias at the Premio
Bonporti competition (Italy), and the special prize ''De Graaf
Unico van Wassenaer Masterclass Award'' at the van Wassenaer
international early music competition in Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Stravaganza has been selected to reprensent the France for the
showcase organized by the REMA (European network of early music)
in March 2013.
The CD « Concert at the Court of the Hapsburgs » is the first
recording published by the Ensemble. Stravaganza is
recording for the label Aparté.
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SUMMARY
INSTRUMENTAL PROGRAMS
- Concert at the hapsburg court
5 musicians
- Arcangelo Corelli, Angelo di violino
5 musicians
- Music for the king
4 musicians
- Bach and the north German tradition
6 musicians
VOCAL PROGRAM
- Médée furioso
6 musicians
Ensemble Stravaganza – Domitille Gilon & Thomas Soltani
45 Boulevard Rabelais – 94100 Saint Maur des Fossés – www.ensemble-stravaganza.com
Contact : Thomas Soltani : 0033 6 52 06 84 67 [email protected]
INSTRUMENTAL
CONCERT AT THE HAPSBURG COURT
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Sonatas for violin and basso-continuo
DOMITILLE GILON : violin
RONALD MARTIN ALONSO : viola da gamba
DAMIEN POUVREAU : Théorbo
OLIVIER SALANDINI or JEAN-LUC HO : organ
THOMAS SOLTANI : harpsichord
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CD Aparté (Released : 25th of September 2012)
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Music seems to have enlivened the Hapsburg Court since the fifteenth century. The accession of
Ferdinand III to the throne (1637) started a new line of cultivated music-loving emperors, promoting
talented musicians and prolific composers. As generous sponsors of the arts, they became effective
actors of the musical life that punctuated events at the Court.
Ferdinand III as well as Leopold I and Joseph I contributed especially to the boom of musical
production, sacred and profane, in seventeenth-century Austria.
The musical profusion at the Court had such an influence throughout Europe that exchanges began
to take place between Germany and Italy, followed by Spain and France.
Vienna with its Court and musicians became a place for constantly renewed experiences in musical
practice, style, composition and interpretation techniques. Musical aesthetics were profoundly
enriched and diversified, incidently showing the remarkable open-mindedness of the monarch.
05/05/2013 – LES JARDINS D’AGREMENTS AMILLY
26/07/2012 - FESTIVAL EUROPEEN JEUNES TALENTS PARIS
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INSTRUMENTAL
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Sonatas opus 3 & 4 for two violins and basso-continuo
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DOMITILLE GILON, LOUIS CREAC’H : violins
DAMIEN POUVREAU : théorbo & baroque guitar
ROBERT SMITH or CLAIRE GRATTON: cello
THOMAS SOLTANI : harpsichord & organ
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« If music can be immortal, Corelli’s consorts will be so»
Roger North
The appointment in 1689 of Pietro Ottoboni as Cardinal of San Lorenzo in Damaso marked the
beginning of one of the most splendid epochs of patronage of the arts in Rome. A passionate lover
of music, Ottoboni gave his protection to numerous musicians: Handel, Pasquini, Scarlatti and
Caldara all at some point worked at the cardinal’s court. A few months after his election, Ottoboni
took into his service the famous violinist Arcangelo Corelli, who was employed not only as first violin
and leader for the instrumental music, but had complete control also over the sumptuous musical
events.
Few years later, in the second decade of the eighteenth century, when Roger North penned the
Elder Notes of Comparison between the elder and Later Musick and Somewhat historicall of Both,
Corelli’s compositions had become ‘’ to the musitians like the bread of life ‘’. Indeed in England
Corelli’s ‘’sonatas cleared the ground of all other sorts of musick whatsoever…(and) became the
onely musick relished for a long time, and there seems to be no satiety of them, no ris the virtue of
them yet exhaled, and it is a question of whether it will ever be spent’’.
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23/06/2012 – FESTES BAROQUES EN TERRE DES GRAVES ET DU SAUTERNAIS
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Ensemble Stravaganza – Domitille Gilon & Thomas Soltani
45 Boulevard Rabelais – 94100 Saint Maur des Fossés – www.ensemble-stravaganza.com
Contact : Thomas Soltani : 0033 6 52 06 84 67 [email protected]
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MUSIC FOR THE KING
4 musicians
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Sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso-continuo
DOMITILLE GILON : violin
RONALD MARTIN ALONSO : viola da gamba
DAMIEN POUVREAU : théorbo & baroque guitar
THOMAS SOLTANI : harpsichord
« On peut dire que jamais personne de son sexe n'a eu d'aussi grans talens qu'elle pour la
composition de la musique et pour la manière admirable dont elle l'exécutait sur le
Clavessin et sur l'Orgue »,
Évrard Titon du Tillet (1732)
« Plusieurs femmes dans le dernier Siècle ont excellé dans le Clavessin. Mademoiselle de la Guerre a
tenu un rang distingué parmi elles »,
M. Titon du Tillet (Paris, 1732)
Born into a family of musicians and master instrument makers, Elisabeth Jacquet began to appear at
the court of Louis XIV when she was only five years old. Her concerts were much applauded, and the
king’s attachment to this child prodigy prompted Madame de Montespan, his favourite at the time,
to keep Elisabeth three or four years with her, in order to afford herslef and the members of the court
who visited her pleasant amusement, a task in which the young lady succeeded very well.
As a composer, she was one of the first to compose sonatas, a genre coming from Italy.
The six violin sonatas were published in 1707 and were played at the court at the petit couvert du roi.
(The petit couvert du roi was the evening meal the king ate alone in his bedroom, surronded by his
officers of state, at which chamber music was frequently played to him).
‘’These sonatas were played…quite perfectly and several persons of disctinction who heard them
were charmed by them’’, Le mercure galant.
01/12/2013: STICHTING MUSICA ANTICA DA CAMERA – THE HAGUE (THE NETHERLANDS)
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INSTRUMENTAL
BACH AND THE NORTH GERMAN TRADITION
6 musicians
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Sonatas for two violins, viola da gamba and basso-continuo.
DOMITILLE GILON, LOUIS CREAC’H : violins
ROBIN PHARO : viola da gamba
DAMIEN POUVREAU : théorbo
JEAN-LUC HO: organ
THOMAS SOLTANI : harpsichord
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Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reinken were two of the most famous musicians in the XVIIth
century. They were friends and had a strong influence on Johann - Sebastian Bach. At the age of 20,
in 1705, Johann - Sebastian Bach travelled to study with Dietrich Buxtehude, the greatest German
musician of the day, to complete his training.
He left Arnstadt to travel to Lübeck, a journey of more than 400km, which he made on foot. He had
only asked for a leave of one month from his church.
He would be absent four months. Upon his return, the parishioners no longer recognised him. He was
reproached for playing too long, and above all for disturbing the audience with strange
modulations. Dietrich Buxtehude’s influence on Jean Sébastien Bach, the greatest musician of all
time, had been decisive.
Reinken, with his stylus phantasticus, has been also of a major influence on Bach, who made
beautiful transcriptions of his works.
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16/07/2012 – FESTIVAL BAROQUE DU PAYS DU MONT BLANC
19/07/2012 – MUSICALES GUIL DURANCE
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Ensemble Stravaganza – Domitille Gilon & Thomas Soltani
45 Boulevard Rabelais – 94100 Saint Maur des Fossés – www.ensemble-stravaganza.com
Contact : Thomas Soltani : 0033 6 52 06 84 67 [email protected]
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VOCAL
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MEDEE FURIOSO
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Cantatas, Arias, Instrumental works
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Magic, humanity, barbarity and a rich array of feelings are the common ingredients of the Greek
myths, which have constantly been illustrated by music in all its forms. While being close to us, these
myths also take us into another world. One of the most famous is certainly Medea, appearing in
many recordings from Bernier, Clerambault, Charpentier or Lully…
The fascination with this character persisted after the end of the baroque era, as Cherubini's opera
Médée testifies.
Medea appears in a play by the Greek author Euripides. She was the princess of Colchis and the
granddaughter of the sun. She is married to Jason, whom she helped to steal the Golden Fleece. But
Jason leaves her for Glauce, and this leads to Medea's fury which is so often portrayed in operas and
cantatas. That is also the case in the compositions chosen for the programme of this concert. It is a
combination of rather well-known pieces - in particular Clérambault's cantata - and unknown
material.
The text of these cantatas of the golden age are only written in relation with music, the rhetoric is
very important, music and affect are very close.
The court of Versailles, from Louis XIV to Louis XV become the center of this beautiful art.
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CAMILLE POUL or DAGMAR SASKOVA : mezzo-soprano
DOMITILLE GILON: violin
ALEXIS KOSSENKO : traverso
RONALD MARTIN ALONSO : viola da gamba
DAMIEN POUVREAU : théorbo
THOMAS SOLTANI : harpsichord
29/01/2013 – LES CONCERTS D’ANACREON, ANGERS
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