Disk of 2024
Album “Liebe Amalia”- CD Review, 20th of September 2024
Flute musician Jean Brégnac, Marie Rouquié- violin, Jennifer Hardy- cello, Yoann Moulin- harpsichord. Pieces by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach, Anna Amalia de Prusia, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Johann Philipp Kirnberger.
Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia made a name for herself in the 18th century through her intense activity as artistic events organizer, composer and collector of music sheets and musical manuscripts. She lived from 1723 to 1787 and contributed to the expansion of German culture, by supporting musical art between baroque and classic styles. She composed chamber music, vocal pieces, and cantatas, she also collected music sheets, over 600 volumes of works from composers such as johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Handel, Carl Heinrich Graun and Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, a collection which can be found now in the patrimony of the Berlin State Library.
For the three hundred year celebration since the birth of this incredible personality, flute musician Jean Brégnac paid her a tribute, launching an album of the princess' creations, but also of her protégés- composers Carl Phillip Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, but also a piece signed by her mentor Johann Philipp Kirnberger. "Liebe Amalia…" is the title of this album which contains chamber pieces, the majority dedicated to the flute during the 18th century.
Jean Brégnac, one of the most widely appreciated French flutists, who studied at Haute Ecole de Musique from Geneva and presently he is a professor at the Paris Conservatory and at the Boulogne- Billancourt College, is accompanied in these recordings of baroque instruments players by violinist Marie Rouquié, the cellist Jennifer Hardy and Yoann Moulin playing harpsichord. The musicians offer us a remarkable, elegant and well supported counterpoint interpretation.
The album "Liebe Amalia…" was launched on the 12th of July 2024, at the Harmonia Mundi house.