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Fons Musicae | ||
l. to r.: 1. Sara Kuijken, Yasunori Imamura, Rainer Zipperling, 2. Pascal Bertin, Monique Zanetti, François Fernandez, Naoki Kitaya
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unites famous artists to an international well noticed ensemble that mainly concentrates on French and Italian 17th to 18th century music . Fons Musicae or "The Foutain of Music" interprets this repertoire with originality, vivacity and invention.
Fons Musicae performs throughout Europe and the Far East, for example at the International Händel-Festspiel Göttingen, Baroque Festivals in Marseille, Brezice, Luxembourg or Hokutopia Baroque Festival Tokyo. Many of their CDs were given an award.
Yasunori Imamura -
leader of Fons Musicae - was
born in Osaka, Japan. He studied lute with E. Dombois and H. Smith at the
Schola C As a continuo player Yasunori Imamura has worked together with many very well-known Period Music artists. Result of this co-operations are more than 100 recordings, his latest CD together with Cecilia Bartoli was published in 2005. As a soloist and continuo player he gives concerts in Europe and the Far East.
The lutenist is member of the ensembles La
Stagione Frankfurt (Michael Schneider), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc
Minkowski), Le Parlement de Musique, Strasbourg (Martin Gerster)and
Camerata Köln. Besides this activities Imamura since 1984 is professor at the Conservatoire National de Strasbourg, and since 1989 at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. As well he gives several international master courses. Remark: Soon Yasunori Imamura as a soloist can be found on this internet pages.
Monique Zanetti studied first at the Conservatoire National de Région
in Metz, France, and at the local University where she received a diploma
in musicology. She then turned to singing, and worked with Elisabeth Grümmer,
and later with Jacqueline Bonnardot, Noelle Barker, and Rachel Yakar. She
soon specialized in the Baroque repertoire, and has meanwhile sung in
numerous performances (among
others Incoronazione di Poppea and Orfeo from Monteverdi, Atys from Lully,
Médée from Charpentier, Dido and Aeneas from Purcell) conducted by William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe
Rousset, and Martin Gester. Monique Zanetti participated in many
international festivals.
Recently, she has begun to explore on the repertoire of the 19th
and 20th century, and could have been heard already in the some
roles.
Her recordings include Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Rossi, Montéclair, Lully,
Charpentier, Campra, Couperin, Schutz, Hasse, Haydn, Bach, Keiser, Boehm,
Lambert, Bononcini, and others, notably in collaboration with Les Arts
Florissants, La Chapelle Royale, the Stuttgart Kammerchor, Le Parlement de
Musique, and Les Talens Lyriques.
Pascal Bertin began singing at the age of eleven in the Paris
Children’s Choir under Roger de Magnée giving concerts all over the
world under conductors like Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Sir Georg Solti.
His discography meanwhile comprises 70 recordings in various styles.
Harmonia Mundi France invited him to participate in a very special
recording project together with Dominique Visse and Andreas Scholl: “The
Three Countertenors”.
François Fernandez studied Baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken,
receiving a soloist’s diploma from the Royal Conservatory in the Hague
in 1980. François Fernandez has taught in Toulouse, France, Liège, Brussels and Trossingen, and since 1999 is a professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. He also gives master classes and summer courses in Spain and Belgium. From his over 80 recordings especially mentioned should be the sonatas by J. M. Leclair published at Astrée Audivis.
Rainer Zipperling started studies in music and musicology. His
special predilection for Baroque music prompted him to study in the
Netherlands, home of the so-called “authentic performance practice.”
Already during his studies he gained experience as a continuo player and,
in this way, became acquainted with the expertise of many important
instrumentalist, including Sigiswald Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt, Anner
Bijlsma, Wieland Kuijken, and, especially, Frans Brüggen, with whom he
still today maintains an active collaboration. Today, he himself numbers among the most well-known gambists and cellists. He has collaborated with renowned ensembles like The English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the 18th century, Ensemble Ricercar, the Freiburger Barockorchester. His activities are documented by nearly 300 CD recordings, both as accompanist and soloist.
In addition to this artistic activity, he enjoys an excellent reputation
as a pedagogue teaching viola da gamba and Baroque violoncello at the
Cologne, Frankfurt and The Hague Colleges of Music, and he regularly
giving master classes. |
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Press |
“Monique Zanetti and Pascal Bertin represent totally the baroque idiom,
listening to both of them, nothing is left to desire in terms of
singing.” from:
Fono Forum (award “Star of the Month“ 03/2002), programme: Steffani
“A beautiful, lively instrumental sound carries the perfectly blended
voices of Monique Zanetti and Pascal Bertin.” from:
Répertoire, programme: Steffani
“One senses in Monique Zanetti and Pascal Bertin the healthy
characteristic of a mutual listening to each other.... The continuo is
simply exquisite.” from:
Classica, programme: Steffani
“… Ensemble and singers harmonized excellently... The listeners were
pulled into a kind of whirlpool of the effervescent spring [of Baroque
music] with all its emotional worlds.” from: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, programm: Gasparini and others |
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Programmes
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4L’amour, le seul amour 4Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi 4MUSIc Inside the PALAZZO 4HÄNDEL AND DAS WELFENHouse HANNOVER |
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Discography |
« Airs
de Cour » Michel
Lambert (1611 – 1696) Etcetera
KTC 1195
(Award
"Classica“ / 7,8-1998 Classica) Monique
Zanetti, Pascal Bertin, Stéphanie Pfister, Amandine Beyer, Guido
Balestracci, Yasunori Imamura
« Luci
Barbare »
Giovanni
Bononcini (1670 – 1747) Etcetera
KTC 1202 (Co-production
with WDR 3) Monique
Zanetti, Pascal Bertin, Stéphqnie Pfister, Isabelle Lucas, Guido
Balestracci, Brian Feehan, Yasunori Imamura
“Cantatas, Duets and Sonatas” Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728)Pan Classics 510 131 (Award „Star of the Month“ /03-2002 Fono Forum, Co-production with
WDR3) Monique Zanetti, Pascal Bertin, François
Fernandez, Ghislaine Wauters, Stéphanie Erös, Rainer Zipperling, Naoki
Kitaya, Yasunori Imamura » Love poetry by a cleric who left behind works of stunning beauty and refined sweetness. The recording, under the direction of Yasunori Imamura … leaves nothing to be desired in terms of interpretation.
(Fono Forum)
“Cantate e Sonate” Antonio
Caldara (1670 – 1736)
Pan Classics 10
139 (Co-production with Swiss Radio DRS) Monique Zanetti, Pascal Bertin, François
Fernandez, Sara Kuijken, Rainer Zipperling, Naoki Kitaya, Yasunori Imamura “Cantatas, Trio Sonatas” Francesco Gasparini (1661 – 1727)
Pan
Classics (Co-production with WDR3, ready to be distributed) Monique Zanetti, Pascal Bertin, François
Fernandez, Stéphanie Pfister, Roberto Gini, Laurent Stewart, Yasunori
Imamura |
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Music Shortcuts | A. Caldera: Cantata "Daliso e Clori" (PC 10139) (mp3, 45 s, 540 KB) | ||
A. Steffani: CD "Crudo Amor" (PC 510 131) | |||
Recitativo "La stella ch'a me splende" (M. Zanetti) (mp3, 44 s, 532 KB) | |||
Recitativo "Come nel mar d'amore" (P. Bertin) (mp3, 34 s, 410 KB) | |||
Aria "Inquieto mio cor" (Duetto M. Zanetti - P. Bertin) (mp3, 45 s, 544 KB) | |||
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