Dossier: Milena Cord-to-Krax — Recorder player

CONVERSATIONS IN
BETWEEN A BROKEN CONSORT
Diminutions on Renaissance Standards
Cabezón, Ortiz & Cord-to-Krax
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A program where every
instrument is protagonist, and
equally important: Renaissance
Standards played by a broken
consort. Diminutions passing
through all the voices, great
diversity of timbres by the
different combinations of these
instruments and emotions
ranging from melancholy to
amazing highs!
QUE DE PLAISIRS —
CHANSONS SANS PAROLE
Lambert, Bousset, Lully & others
Doubles by Hotteterre & Cord-to-Krax
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Playing vocal music instrumentally is usually
associated to the Renaissance period.
Nevertheless, it was still practiced in
Baroque times as we can see, for example,
from Hotteterre’s collection Airs et
brunettes (ca. 1721): compositions by
different authors with their doubles by the
flutist. In this program we play a selection of
beautiful songs, (trios, duos & solos)
following Hotteterre’s example of
embellishing the songs with doubles,
creating a quite different atmosphere
within French baroque music.