Effervescence from Leipzig to Dresden

Program presentation Effervescence from Leipzig to Dresden

© Shortbread Festival 2025

Broadcast locations : Shortbread festival 2025

Note of intent from Héloïse Gaillard (extract)

Effervescence from Leipzig to Dresden (6 musicians), creation 2024 taking place at the opening of the festival Pass your Bach first (Toulouse), invites you to rediscover instrumental music combining great expressiveness and exuberant virtuosity in 18th century Baroque Germany.

This program highlights two capitals located in Saxony and Thuringia : Leipzig and Dresden. Alongside Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann, three other brilliant but still too little-known composers are in the spotlight.

Presse (extracts)

Their long-term shared experience explains an understanding that produces its wonders : instrumental playing that sounds natural, seems improvised, just in the breaths, subtle in every accent and nuance (their 2 Bach breathe as much as they sing, in particular the second part of the program, in the 2nd sonata BWV1028, for violin and flute).
Same superlative understanding of the groups where they join as fervent and individualized, the 2nd oboe also loquacious Xavier Miquel, and the sparkling bassoon, agileLaurent Le Chenadec.

To stage and set to music this brilliant Areopagus, Heloïse Gaillard has selected a collection of concert pieces that express the effervescent vitality (see the title of the program) of musical creationbetween Leipzig and Dresden, two centers of intense and ardent activity which have attracted a number of eminent composers, particularly in Dresden where the excellence of the local orchestra including leading soloists, favored the creators themselves in the writing of virtuoso pieces and sometimes of indisputable depth. In addition to celebrating shared virtuosity, the choice of pieces also underlines the friendships and even the affiliations between musicians who knew each other or even frequented each other.. (…)

Alexandre Pham, Classiquenews

the Ensemble Amarillis under the direction of Héloïse Gaillard transported the audience to Thuringia and Saxony in the 18th century^e century with“Eftervescence from Leipzig to Dresden”. Around Bach and Telemann, featured Heinichen, Fasch and Zelenka, in trio and quartet sonatas. The richness of instrumental combinations — recorder, violin, oboe, basson, basso continuo — revealed a whole palette of timbres and colors. Wind instruments, closely linked to breath, strongly expressed the fragility and vitality of this founding element. Inhabited, the musicians embodied an invigorating virtuosity and expressive intensity that stirred the audience’s emotions.

Victoria Okada, Growing Magazinee

Alternately on the recorder and the oboe, Héloïse Gaillard skillfully leads the twirl. Cohesion, listening quality, finally the complicity of the musicians gives us high-flying interpretations, such as that of theSonate in trio n°3by Jan Dismas Zelenka. If Johann David Heinichen's opus shows slight fatigue, theSonata for violin and basso continuo in E minor BWV 1023is made pure delight, under the expert bow of Alice Piérot, just as theSonatas en trio BWV 1028.On the harpsichord, Jeanne Jourquin provides a very subtle basso continuo with cellist Gauthier Broutin., when bassoonist Laurent Le Chenadec works wonders, sometimes in passages of incredible volubility, and what does the oboe of Xavier Miquel sing?. We ask for more !

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