6th Early Music Festival: The story of a soldier.

The sweetness of Iris Tocabens' viola da gamba and the vigorous timbre of tenor Romain Bazola come together in this programme full of baroque affects. The sumptuous melancholy and love fever of 17th-century England are combined with the French genre par excellence: the air de cour. Here the style is more refined, the genre is noble, gallant, and the accompaniment of the voice is improvised on a bass line. While it may seem surprising nowadays to combine French and English music, this was not the case at the time. The two influenced each other, both in terms of stylistic borrowings and through the musicians' travels. This moment of conversation ranging from tenderness to anger will lead us to an illusion of madness, and to the fusion of a duo that slowly transforms into a single voice resonating in the infinity of passions.