![Ensemble des Equilibres – Des cordes marines: Trios for Violin, Alto and Cello (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/3325480688362_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble des Equilibres – Des cordes marines: Trios for Violin, Alto and Cello (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
The Ensemble des Equilibres, touched by the beauty and artistic importance of three great works: Jean Cras (1879-1932), Joseph-Ermend Bonnal (1880-1944) and Albert Roussel (1869-1937) ) – a fundamental part of the French classical repertoire, has set itself the task of immortalizing them in the form of a disc, in order to offer the general public the pleasure of discovering them, and to assure to these works the posterity which come back. This one leaves at ARION at the end of February 2017.
On the occasion of the launching of this new opus, the musicians of the ensemble will have the pleasure of presenting to the public two of these works: the trios of Bonnal and Cras. The two composers have a common background in both of them: a naval officer and composer for Cras, a very serious organist of Sainte Clotilde and a ragtime composer under the pseudonym Guy Marylis for Ermend-Bonnal. And where Bonnal was inspired by his dear Basque Country, Cras opened wide the doors of his music to the influences of the many countries he visited.
The three Madrigals for violin and viola of the Czech Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), himself a pupil of Albert Roussel, will complete this program.
![Christopher Wood – Le clavecin de Haendel (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/21/bznyj1h5en1qa_600.md.jpg)
Christopher Wood – Le clavecin de Haendel (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Christopher Wood began his musical career as a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. He studied music at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where Boris Ord was one of his teachers, and then at the RCM, under Herbert Howells, Gordon Jacobs and Arthur Benjamin. In the summer vacations he studied conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Clemens Krauss, Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan. His principal piano teacher was Adelina de Lara, a pupil of Clara Schumann and Brahms. He studied the harpsichord with Rudolphe Dolmetsch and Dorothy Swainson.