Les Cris de Paris: Memento Mori

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Les Cris de Paris and their conductor Geoffroy Jourdain head off in search of expressions of the fragility of life in the music of the 17th century, notably with unpublished works by Luigi Rossi, a composer little known today but who during his life was one of the most famous in Europe from the school of Rome, along with religious madrigals by Monteverdi.

Italy is a land where the pleasures of life, in the soft perspectives of cypress‐crested hills and the warmth of the climate, have become something of an art. Perhaps that is why their ephemeral character and vanity in the face of mortality are most cruelly felt. Baroque art, Italian by definition by having been born there, is the art of allegory and movement, exhibiting the unity of movement in the making. The Baroque artists were the first to picture death not by mortal remains, i.e. the skeleton, but by the live bodies themselves upon which mortality works. This view lies behind the Vanities, those still‐life masterpieces that display the vacuity of human concerns in Baroque pictorial art.

Music, as the art of movement par excellence, could not ignore this essential vision in the collective imagination of the era.

Narrator, Benjamin Lazar
Soprano, Karen Vourc’h
Soprano, Edwige Parat
Countertenor, Manuel Nuñez Camelino
Tenor, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro
Baritone, Lisandro Abadie
Video, Clément Cogitore