Beaute Barbare (Barbaric Beauty)

This album (by François Lasarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien) owes its title ‘Beauté barbare’ to Telemann who described the music he discovered during a trip to Upper Silesia in Protected content 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 Protected content he has unearthed.

duration 62 minutes