Fahmi Alqhai & Accademia del Piacere - Les Violes du Ciel et de l'Enfer (2019)

Tracklist

01. Marche Tartare
02. Allemande la Superbe
03. L' Arabesque
04. La Reveuse
05. Le Tourbillon
06. Sarabande Grave
07. Marche Persane dite la Savigny
08. La Rameau
09. La Guignon
10. La Leon Sarabande
11. La Montigni
12. Jupiter
13. Chaconne Marais



“Angels are many-sided and equivocal.” Thus wrote the poet Rafael Pérez Estrada and I ponder on that ambiguity of the archangel, halfway between heavenly and evil, as I am shaken by the alternation and the successive waves of this album, half godlike half barbarian, alternatively “fanciful and lunatic”, as Hubert Le Blanc described the wild evil temper of Antoine Forqueray, changing immediately into the exaggerated, troubled sensitiveness of the most intimate and poetical Marin Marais. It is funny: you listen to it forwards and backwards and both performances always fit symmetrically, as if they were exactly-cut reverses. The answer is given, once again, by Pérez Estrada, who points out: “exact lovers cast only one shadow.” The juxtaposition of the opposite Forqueray and Marais cast, therefore, one single global shadow.

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