Géraldine JEANNOT – soprano
Maximin MARCHAND – countertenor
François ISSEREL-SAVARY – tenor
Johan RIPHAGEN – bass
Radboud OOMENS – violon

Production: Le Chœur du Luberon

Why five performers to interpret the Sonatas and Partitas?

Because a German musicologist discovered that these pieces for solo violin — a formidable challenge for any self-respecting violinist — conceal a hidden music, inaudible to the untrained ear.
Thus, it takes a violinist accompanied by four seasoned singers to reveal what is unwritten, to hear what is hidden.

And because it takes five of us to bring forth the intangible.

« I imagine Johann Sebastian Bach at his keyboard.
In his mind, the majestic sounds of the polyphonic cathedrals built by his predecessors.
He searches, he finds.
Under his fingers, the multicoloured fabric of a wonderfully constructed fugue unfolds and fills the space like a prayer, like a sculpture.
And suddenly, the thought: why not do the same with a single violin — to build cathedrals of sound, ad majorem Dei gloriam.

So he takes his violin. He searches and finds : Sei solo a violino senza basso accompagnato »

                                                                                                                                                      J.Riphagen