Les Sauvages transports us above and beyond this dull world to the heavenly realms of an oriental dream depicted in Indian ink. For her first solo album, Béatrice Martin chose one of the most prestigious of the famous Ruckers-Couchet Antwerp harpsichords, which had never previously been recorded.
Béatrice Martin uses her own particular alchemy of the ineffable to mingle the passion and delicacy of the French Clavecin School’s greatest masters : exploring beyond those much-loved French baroque hits Les Sauvages, L’Egyptienne, and the Passacaglia from Armide, this recording is an absolute dream.
Redolent of the exoticism we associate with Rameau, Couperin and Fouqueray, but also with Royer and d’Anglebert, this recording sheds a ray of French Enlightenment on the Orient, source of so many fantasies, brought to life here by the touch of one of the best harpsichord players of our time.
