Chouchane Siranossian & Jos van Immerseel – L’ange et le diable (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

After a year of celebrations of his seventieth birthday, including several recordings of orchestral music, Jos Van Immerseel returns to chamber music and the accompaniment of young talents, two absolute priorities for him. In Chouchane Siranossian he has found a worthy partner, as gifted on the modern violin as she is on the Baroque instrument, a pupil of Tibor Varga, then of Zakhar Bron, as well as a disciple of Reinhard Goebel, whose first recording, on the Oehms label, attracted great attention (winning a ‘Diapason Découverte’). Here it is the Baroque violinist who engages in dialogue with the harpsichord of Jos Van Immerseel in a Franco-Italian programme juxtaposing the music of the ‘Angel’ Leclair and the ‘Devil’ Locatelli, not forgetting Tartini’s famous ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata . . . Indeed, all this music is ‘devilishly’ difficult to play, but the Franco-Armenian violinist shows perfect mastery of it, combined with great inventiveness.

Tracklist:
01. Juditha triumphans, RV 644: Aria “Agitata infido flatu”
02. La Betulia liberata: Aria “Prigionier che fa ritorno”
03. Concerto grosso No. 2 in D Major, Op. 2: I. Grave-Allegro
04. Concerto grosso No. 2 in D Major, Op. 2: II. Largo
05. Concerto grosso No. 2 in D Major, Op. 2: III. Allegro
06. Mottetto “In procella sine stella”: I. In procella sine stella
07. Mottetto “In procella sine stella”: II. Jam cerno in meo timore
08. Mottetto “In procella sine stella”: III. In tenebris horroris
09. Mottetto “In procella sine stella”: IV. Alleluia
10. Sinfonia dalla Passione di Gesù Cristo Signor nostro: I. Grave
11. Sinfonia dalla Passione di Gesù Cristo Signor nostro: II. Andante
12. Et egressus est
13. Cantata “Lumi dolente lumi”: I. Lumi dolente lumi
14. Cantata “Lumi dolente lumi”: II. Chi pianger non sa
15. Cantata “Lumi dolente lumi”: III. Umanità crudele
16. Cantata “Lumi dolente lumi”: IV. Saette e fulmini che tardan più?
17. O spiritus angelici: I. O spiritus angelici
18. O spiritus angelici: II. Potest solum mea tormenta
19. O spiritus angelici: III. O panis angelorum
20. O spiritus angelici: IV. O liquor quam suavis
21. O spiritus angelici: V. O fons, sed amoris
22. O spiritus angelici: Alleluia