Dominique Visse – counter-tenor
François Couturier – piano
Jean-Louis Matinier – accordion
program:
Guillaume de Machaut: Dame ne regarde pas
Maurice Ravel: Ronsard à son âme
Maurice Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Lorenzo Ferrero: Mi palpita il core
Barbara Strozzi: L’Eraclito amoroso
François Couturier: Miroirs - Piano improvisation
Luciano Berio: Sequenzia n° 3
Matinier: accordéon solo
John Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
Francis Poulenc: Les chemins de l’amour
Henry Purcell: Musick for a while
Toru Takemitsu: La neige
Toru Takemitsu: Unseen Child
Tarquinio Merula: Canzonetta spirituale alla nanna
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Dominique Visse
Dominique Visse began his singing career at the age of 11 as a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. At the same time he began studying the organ and flute at the Versailles Conservatory.
Already passionate about Renaissance and Mediaeval music, in 1976 he met the grand pioneer of the countertenor voice, Alfred Deller, and became his pupil. He also worked with Nigel Rogers, René Jacobs and William Christie.
In 1978 Dominique Visse founded the Ensemble Clément Janequin with whom he has made a series of benchmark recordings of French polyphonic chansons of the 16th Century. The following year he became one of the founding members of Les Arts Florissants and edited much of the ensemble's repertoire in its early years.
Since that time Dominique Visse has become one of the most popular lyric artists in the world of Baroque opera, working with René Jacobs, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, William Christie, Alan Curtis, Nicholas McGegan, Christophe Rousset, Ivor Bolton and Robert King, in the opera houses of Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, Lausanne, Tel-Aviv, Montpellier, Houston, Barcelona, Munich, Versailles, at the Monnaie in Brussels, at the Châtelet and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, on tour in Japan and North America, and at the Festivals of Aix en Provence, Innsbruck and Edinburgh.
Dominique Visse does not limit himself to Baroque and early repertoire. He has sung in Offenbach's Les Brigands, directed by Jérôme Deschamps and has recorded the role of La Marquise in Poulenc's Gendarme incompris for Decca. He also frequently performs contemporary music and has participated in Luciano Berio’s opera Outis at La Scala in Milan and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In July 1999 he played the role of Oreste in Offenbach's La Belle Hélène staged by Herbert Wernicke at the Festival of Aix en Provence and revived in Salzburg in August 2001.
In December 2002 he performed in another production of La Belle Hélène in Israel followed by Rinaldo in Berlin in January 2003, Perela, l’Homme de Fumée by Pascal Dusapin at the Opéra de Paris in February 2003, Florian Gassmann’s Opera seria at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in March 2003, revivals of Il ritorno d’Ulisse and Rinaldo in Munich in July 2003, revivals of Agrippina at La Monnaie and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in June and September 2003, a revival of the Wernicke / Jacobs production of La Calisto in Vienna (June 2003), also to be performed in Luxemburg in October 2003, and a new work La Frontière by Philippe Manoury at the Carré St Vincent in Orléans, the Bouffe du Nord in Paris and on tour in France in Octobre and November 2003.
In October 2004 Dominique Visse played Nireno in a new production of L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées staged by David McVicar and directed by René Jacobs, followed by a revival of the David Alden / Ivor Bolton production of L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra de Paris in January 2005, Handel's Agrippina with Jean-Claude Malgoire in March 2005, a new production of Cavalli's La Calisto in Munich in May 2005, Sartori's Don Quichotte with René Jacobs in Innsbruck in August 2005, and revivals of Monteverdi's operas in Munich in 2005 and 2006. His most recent appearances include Kagel’s Mare Nostrum and Il ritorno d’Ulisse with Jean-Claude Malgoire and the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing in the spring of 2007, further revivals of La Calisto and the Monteverdi operas in Munich, a new production of Giulio Cesare at the Monnaie in Brussels directed by René Jacobs and L’incoronazione di Poppea directed by Emmanuelle Haïm at Glyndebourne in 2008.
Forthcoming engagements include a new Poppea production in Barcelona directed by Harry Bicket in February 2009, a revival of the Munich Calisto production, also in February 2009, and Mare Nostrum in Tourcoing in June 2009.
As well as his work in opera, Dominique Visse continues to devote much of his time to the Ensemble Clément Janequin which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2008. The ensemble will record a programme of French 'Cries' ranging from the Renaissance to the present day, also for harmonia mundi, for release in 2009.
Dominique Visse performs recital programmes of music ranging from Machaut to Berio, via Dowland, Schubert, Offenbach, Massenet, Satie, Poulenc and Takemitsu. He has made more than fifty recordings, principally for harmonia mundi. In 2008 he will be recording a programme of comic French Baroque cantatas with Café Zimmermann for the Alpha label.
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François Couturier
After extensive studies in the classical piano and a university degree in musicology in 1977, François Couturier devoted himself to jazz, founding the group "Impression".
In 1980 he won the Django Reinhardt prize awarded by the "Académie du Jazz", by which time he was regularly performing with Daniel Humair, Katia Labèque, Michel Portal and Didier Lockwood in numerous festivals throughout Europe.
In 1981 he met John Mac Laughlin and with his group "Translators" made a number of world tours and recorded two albums.
Since then François Couturier has performed and recorded with numerous artists and groups including "Pandémonium" with François Jeanneau, "Multicolor feeling" with Eddy Louiss, "Swing strings system" with Didier Levallet, "Acte IV" with François Méchali and Jean-Marc Larché, and "Passagio" which he founded with Jean Paul Celea, Wolfgang Reisinger, Armand Angster and Françoise Kubler, recording 2 albums for "Label Bleu".
He has participated in a number of projects with the violinist Dominique Pifarély since and 1986, recording "Poros" for the ECM label. They have recently composed and performed "Impromptu" for piano violin and voice with the countertenor Dominique Visse, whom François Couturier first met when recording "The Three Countertenors" for Harmonia Mundi.
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Jean-Louis Matinier
Parisian accordion master Jean-Louis Matinier, arguably the most adventurous and open-minded virtuoso on his instrument, presents his long-awaited debut album as a bandleader. Matinier studied classical music, then turned to jazz and other improvised styles, easily crossing the borders between ethnic traditions, swinging grooves and daring innovations in the new classical vein.
An irreplaceable collaborator for many of his colleagues, Matinier can be heard on recordings by (among others) Louis Sclavis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Michel Godard, Anouar Brahem and most noticably bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons. His duet album with Garcia-Fons, "Fuera" (ENJ-9364 2), received highest critical praise. "A CD that grabs you from the first joyous note. It's an exciting trip" (The Gazette, Montreal)
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