Notturno L'Escadron Volant de la Reine

• Cristofaro Caresana (1640-1709): Lectio Prima del Venerdi Santo a voce sola con violoni:
• 1 Caresana: Lectio Prima del Venerdi Santo a voce sola con violoni 09:57
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): Agar et Ismaele Esiliati, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio:
• 2 Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio: I. Grave 01:41
• 3 Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio: II. Allegro 01:07
• 4 Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio: III. Largo 00:44
• 5 Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio: IV. Allegro - Presto 01:12
• Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1716): Lectio Terza del Primo Notturno del Venerdi Santo a voce sola con violini:
• 6 Veneziano: Lectio Terza del Primo Notturno del Venerdi Santo a voce sola con violini 10:26
• Scarlatti: Sinfonia a quattro senza cembalo:
• 7 Scarlatti: Sinfonia a quattro senza cembalo: I. Fuga 02:50
• 8 Scarlatti: Sinfonia a quattro senza cembalo: II. Largo - Allegro 03:32
• 9 Scarlatti: Sinfonia a quattro senza cembalo: III. Menuet 01:02
• San Filippo de Neri, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio:
• 10 Scarlatti: San Filippo de Neri, Sinfonia avanti l'Oratorio: Allegro - Adagio 02:15
• Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini:
• 11 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: I. Incipit Lamentatio 01:52
• 12 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: II. Aleph "Quomodo sedet sola civitas" 02:18
• 13 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: III. Beth "Plorans ploravit" 05:02
• 14 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: IV. Ghimel "Migravit ludas" 02:43
• 15 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: V. Daleth "Viae Sion" 03:32
• 16 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: VI. He "Facti sunt" 03:42
• 17 Scarlatti: Lectio Prima Feria V in Coena Domini: VII. Jerusalem convertere 01:35
• Total Runtime 55:30

Info for Notturno

L’Escadron Volant de la Reine, “the Queen's Flying Squadron” was created by Antoine Touche, l'Escadron Volant de la Reine gathers together young professional musicians, fond of Baroque music. All former students from European superior conservatoires, they are linked by a deep friendship and it’s very naturally that they came together in January 2012.

Notturno is the first album of the baroque ensemble. This recording is a result of their teamwork and research on the Italian repertoire of the late XVIIth century which concentrates on the process of finding hidden and unknown scores to the definition of the general musical gesture of the time. They chose this repertoire because of its musical beauty, its rarity and foremost because it matches perfectly the setup of the ensemble: four different parts (two violins, a viola, the basso continuo and a vocal part). The music is written in such a way that the musical equality of the parts and the dialogue of each part with the vocal part are underlined. Playing with rhythm and pulsation, they achieved to underline a number of cesuras which transform this religious music into a very extrovert and theatrical musical genre.

Eugénie Lefebvre, soprano
Josèphe Cottet, violin
Marie Rouquié, violin
Benjamin Lescoat, alto
Antoine Touche, ioloncelle
Sanne Deprettere, double bass
Thibaut Roussel, theorbe
Clément Geoffroy, harpsichord, organ

L’Escadron Volant de la Reine
the Queen’s Flying Squa- dron refers to the ladies-in-waiting recruited by Cathe- rine de Médicis. ey were charged with the task of pacifying human relations with various European courts by the means of conversation and by their very presence. This un-hierarchical formation embodied both precision and fantasy, qualities the ensemble’s musician lovingly apply to their musical endeavors.

Created by Antoine Touche, l’Escadron Volant de la Reine gathers together young professional musicians, fond of Baroque music. All former students from European superior conservatoires, they are linked by a deep friendship and it’s very naturally that they came together in January 2012. The ensemble performed in various festivals : un Automne à Limur (Vannes), Festival de Pâques (Deauville), les Jeudis Musicaux de la Chapelle Royale (Versailles), Festival de Ribeauvillé, Amuz (Anvers).

L’Escadron Volant de la Reine won the first prize and the audience prize at the first international early music competition in Loire Valley 2015 (France, presided by William Christie). They also are laureates of Anvers Inter- national Young Artists Presentation 2013 (Belgium). L’Escadron is in residence at the Singer-Polignac fondation since 2012

Eugénie Lefebvre
Laureate at the 2013 Froville baroque singing competition, Eugénie studied at the Centre de Musique Baroque of Versailles and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Her production appearances have included Castor et Pollux by Rameau, Médée by Charpentier, Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Lully, Les

Fêtes Vénitiennes by Campra, Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck, Don Giovanni by Mozart, Le Couronnement de Poppée by Monteverdi (Néron), Actéon by Charpentier (Aréthuse), Le Pouvoir de l’Amour by Pancrace Royer (Imagination/ Hersilie), Les Amants Magni ques by Lully (Caliste), La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers by Charpentier (Aréthuse), Cadmus et Hermione by Lully (Hymen), Les plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier (La Conversation).

She performs in concert with le Concert d’Astrée (E. Haïm), les Arts Florissants (W. Christie), l’ensemble Pygmalion (R. Pichon), the ensemble Correspondances (S. Daucé), the ensemble la Rêveuse (B. Perrot), the ensemble Sagittarius (M. Laplénie), Les Symphonistes (O. Schneebeli), Le Poême Harmonique (V. Dumestre) and the Académie für Alte music of Berlin.

In 2016 she will release three recordings as a soloist with the ensembles Le Vertigo, les Surprises and l’Escadron Volant de la Reine.

Booklet for Notturno