We know very little about Joseph Touchemoulin, a renowned violinist and chapel master to the princely courts of Bonn and Regensburg for more than 50 years, and one of the few 18th-century French composers to have enjoyed a career outside France. Touchemoulin's apprenticeship was largely accomplished at Padua, where he became a pupil of the great violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini. This is the source of the exuberant Italian idiom which characterises his work, and which he would later combine with the delicacy and ease of the German tradition. This first recording of Touchemoulin on period instruments, or on authentic copies, presents three of the composer's concertos and two of his symphonies - a charming, finely made music, combining Italian influences with the current tastes of the Mannheim school with its conventions of galant style and sensitive style (Empfindsamkeit).

Patrick Ayrton, harpsichord, direction
Alexis Kossenko, traverso, flute
Daniel Sepec, violin

Les Inventions:
Stéphan Dudermel (KM), Joanna Huszcza, Tuomo Suni, Anne-Catherine Fargeix, Mieko Tsubaki, violin I
Lilia Slavny, Satomi Watanabe, Stéphanie Erös, Matthieu Camilleri, violin II
Gudrun Hardardottir, Samantha Montgomery, Céline Cavagnac, viola
Marion Middenway, Blandine Odin, cello
Thomas de Pierrefeu, violone
Judith Farey, flute
Pierre-Yves Madeuf, Emma Cottet, horn
Raphaël Collignon, harpsichord


Disc reviews Johan van Veen "musica-dei"

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