The musicians of the Sarbacanes ensemble publish a colorful, virtuoso and jubilant album

On the occasion of the publication of the new album of the Sarbacanes ensemble, Gabriel Pidoux and Neven Lesage will be, this Monday, December 23 at 8 p.m., the guests of the Journal du Classique.

It's a colorful, virtuoso and jubilant album that the musicians of the Sarbacanes ensemble have just offered us under the Oktav Records label. Entitled “Pyrotechnies”, it brings together sonatas by Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann and other lesser-known composers linked to the illustrious court orchestra of Dresden, such as Fasch and Zelenka. Pieces of which the young and brilliant musicians of Sarbacanes, who play on period instruments, wonderfully restore the shimmering colors and volubility, giving the impression of real conversations.

The oboe and bassoon aroused the enthusiasm of 18th century composers

Gabriel Pidoux and Neven Lesage, the two oboists of the ensemble, will enlighten us this evening on their approaches and on this Italian and Germanic repertoire from the beginning of the 18^thhighlighting the oboe as well as the bassoon.

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These two instruments had then just undergone significant transformations allowing them to be deployed as soloists and aroused the enthusiasm of composers who had detected in them this ability to articulate and therefore converse without words.

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