Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Beauté barbare (2023)

This album owes its title ‘Beauté barbare’ to Telemann who described the music he discovered during a trip to Upper Silesia in 1705 as existing ‘in its true barbaric beauty’. Did he mean ‘wild’? ‘Exotic’? In any case, the composer was fascinated: ‘An attentive observer could gather from[those musicians] enough ideas in eight days to last a lifetime.’ An equally passionate admirer of folk music, whose Serbian roots link him to these cultures, François Lazarevitch has conceived this wildly swirling programme that mixes Telemann ( Concerto Polonois ) and eastern European Romani music of the eighteenth century, thanks to a collection of dance tunes from 1730 that he has unearthed. ‘What is interesting for us as Baroque performers is to try to find in the pieces of “art music” everything that is not written down, namely the energy and “swing” of the folk dances. I like the music we play not to sound like early music’, says the flautist and founder of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, who are joined for the occasion by a cymbalom virtuoso and a wide variety of percussion instruments.

Tracklist
01. Anonymous: Pozic mamo roz
02. Anonymous: Światówka
03. Anonymous: Suite from Uhrovska's manuscript:[Untitled] – Hungaricus – Hajdukujymy – Hungaricus
04. Telemann: Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55
05. Telemann: Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:D17: 2. Les Janissaires
06. Telemann: Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:B8: 8. Mezzetin
07. Telemann: Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:E2: 5. Rondeau Hanaquoise
08. Anonymous: Dyž sem šla z kostela
09. Telemann: Flute Concerto, TWV 51:D2: I. Moderato
10. Telemann: Flute Concerto, TWV 51:D2: II. Allegro
11. Telemann: Flute Concerto, TWV 51:D2: III. Largo
12. Telemann: Flute Concerto, TWV 51:D2: IV. Vivace
13. Anonymous: Nisko słonko
14. Telemann: Trio no.3 in B minor, TWV 42:H2: Allegro
15. Anonymous: Hora din caval
16. Telemann: Polish concerto: Adagio
17. Telemann: Trio no.3 in B minor, TWV 42:H2: Presto
18. Anonymous: Takú sem já galánečku dostal
19. Anonymous: Dances suite from Uhrovska's manuscript:[Untitled] – Olacs –[Untitled] –[Untitled] –[Untitled]
20. Telemann: Suite of two hanacs, TWV 45
21. Telemann: Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:E1: 10. Hanasky
22. Anonymous: Vitement – Braul Oltenesc
23. Anonymous: Vešelo še dzivče
24. Telemann: Suite of two Polonesie
25. Anonymous: Suite from Uhrovska's manuscript:[Untitled] – Hungaricus – Hungaricus –[Untitled] – Olas