The Paris Album Ensemble Diderot & Johannes Pramsohler

• Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665 - 1729): Trio Sonata in G Minor:
• 1 Trio Sonata in G Minor: I. Grave 01:21
• 2 Trio Sonata in G Minor: II. Presto - Presto - Adagio 03:15
• 3 Trio Sonata in G Minor: III. Presto. Récit de basse 01:00
• 4 Trio Sonata in G Minor: IV. Aria affettuoso. Adagio - Becarre allegro - Bemol 01:52
• Sébastien De Brossard (1655 - 1730): Sonata in A Minor "Detta la Primogenita":
• 5 Sonata in A Minor "Detta la Primogenita" 05:49
• André Campra (1660 - 1744): Sonata No. 1 in B-Flat Major:
• 6 Sonata No. 1 in B-Flat Major 05:35
• Sébastien De Brossard: Sonata in C Major "Detta la Seconda":
• 7 Sonata in C Major "Detta la Seconda" 04:17
• François Couperin (1668 - 1733): La Convalescente:
• 8 La Convalescente: I. Gravement. Vivement et ferme 03:36
• 9 La Convalescente: II. Lentement 01:02
• 10 La Convalescente: III. Air gracieusement. Lentement 03:23
• 11 La Convalescente: IV. Vivement 02:01
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676 - 1749): Trio Sonata in G Major "La Félicité":
• 12 Trio Sonata in G Major "La Félicité": I. Lentement - Allegro - Lent 03:41
• 13 Trio Sonata in G Major "La Félicité": II. Allegro 01:16
• 14 Trio Sonata in G Major "La Félicité": III. [Gavotte] - [Gigue] - Lent 01:42
• André Campra: Sonata No. 2 in A Major:
• 15 Sonata No. 2 in A Major 03:18
• Sébastien De Brossard: Sonata in D Major:
• 16 Sonata in D Major: I. Allegro 01:33
• 17 Sonata in D Major: II. Rondeau 01:17
• 18 Sonata in D Major: III. Rigaudon 01:46
• 19 Sonata in D Major: IV. [Sarabande] 00:53
• 20 Sonata in D Major: V. [Gigue] 01:18
• Jean-Féry Rebel (1666 - 1747): Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully:
• 21 Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully: I. Lentement - Gravement 03:23
• 22 Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully: II. Vif - Marqué - Gai 01:48
• 23 Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully: III. Lentement - Doux - Récit - Grave 02:45
• 24 Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully: IV. Doux - Récit - Vivement 03:35
• 25 Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully: V. Lentement - Gravement 03:33
• Total Runtime 01:04:59

Info for The Paris Album

Ensemble Diderot continues to explore the development and dissemination of the trio sonata in baroque Europe with this exciting new release.

This new release from the talented and critically acclaimed Ensemble Diderot and Johannes Pramsohler contains many premiere recordings. Entirely dedicated to works from the era after Lully’s death, this album celebrates the newly found freedom at the time when composers started to combine French style with transalpine ardour. Johannes Pramsohler and his musicians bring their usual precision, passion and energy to this programme packed with new discoveries.

"Pramsohler, violinist and founder of Ensemble Diderot, has given careful thought to the construction and originality of his programmes…In The Paris Album, François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel share pride of place…The players follow a manuscript copy by the Dresden violin virtuoso Pisendel and give a supple and authoritative account of its exhilarating concluding fugal Vivement." (BBC Music Magazine)

"One sense a love for the theatrical over the pretty in these musicians, a suspicion confirmed by ‘The Paris Album’, where the composers all seem to be responding as much to French musical drama as to Italian instrumental brio. Ensemble Diderot respond with infectious aplomb…No affected gestures and frilly cuffs here, only the dramatic moment grabbed with both hands." (Gramophone Magazine)

"Clearly a great deal of research and planning has gone into the compilation of both these albums, but Ensemble Diderot’s ebullient approach wears that learning very lightly. Even music that is distinctly subfusc...receives performances that squeeze every last morsel of rhythmic or melodic variety out of their formulaic phrases." (The Guardian)

Ensemble Diderot
Johannes Pramsohler, violin
Roldán Bernabé, violin
Eric Tinkerhess, viola da gamba
Philippe Grisvard, harpsichord

Ensemble Diderot
Founded in 2008 by violinist Johannes Pramsohler and a group of like-minded musicians, Ensemble Diderot has become an absolute reference in classical music. Their distinctive sound, the fresh approach to baroque music on original instruments inviting audiences to go on thought-provoking journeys, the creative use of historically informed performance, thorough research, and highly inventive programming have earned them a large international fan base, not only in the Early Music scene. The award-winning discography consisting mainly of world premiere recordings bears testimony to the adventurous spirit of the ensemble's members.

Johannes Pramsohler
With a PhD in Historically Informed Performance from the Royal Academy of Music and an extensive discography acclaimed by international critics, Johannes Pramsohler is widely acclaimed as one of the leading forces in the Early Music scene. A stimulating and inspirational personality with a desire for inventive programming and innovative collaborations, he brings a joyful sense of adventure to his music-making. Born in South Tyrol and now living in Paris, Johannes Pramsohler alternates his roles as artistic director and leader of Ensemble Diderot with that as a guest both as soloist and as conductor at the head of numerous groups. As artistic director and first violin of Ensemble Diderot, which he founded in 2008, he brings to life unknown repertoire with a keen sense for significant rarities and creative use of historically informed performance. As concertmaster, Johannes has collaborated with Concerto Köln, The King’s Consort, Le Concert d’Astrée, the European Union Baroque Orchestra, and as a guest of the Berlin Philharmonic with its early music ensemble Concerto Melante.

Johannes Pramsohler’s communicative skills and vast musicological knowledge make him a welcome guest as a soloist and increasingly also as a conductor of baroque orchestras and modern symphony orchestras alike. Thus he has performed with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer, the Taiwan Baroque Orchestra, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Darmstädter Barocksolisten, the Lower Saxony State Orchestra in Hanover, and the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, performing in concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Cologne Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

Recent conducting engagements have taken him to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires for a staged production of Handel’s oratorio Theodora, to the Théâtre de l’Athénée and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris for the operas Dido & Aeneas by Purcell and Croesus by Reinhard Keiser, and to the Haus der Musik in Innsbruck where he conducted Beethoven symphonies.

A desire for artistic independence even in the recording studio led Johannes to found his own record label in 2013. Audax Records continues to release an astonishing variety of recordings, many of which have been awarded prizes including the Diapason d’Or, the German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik), and the International Classical Music Award.

As a sought-after pedagogue, Johannes was responsible from 2011 until 2018 for the strings of the French Youth Baroque Orchestra, teaches at the Summer Academy of the Festival du Périgord Noir, and is regularly invited to give master classes at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, the Shanghai Conservatory, the Norwegian Academy of Music, and the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Johannes Pramsohler studied at the Conservatory “C. Monteverdi” in Bozen with Georg Egger, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Jack Glickman, David Takeno and Rachel Podger, at the Paris Conservatoire CRR with Patrick Bismuth, and at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Reinhard Goebel, and trained as an orchestra conductor with Nicolas Brochot in Evry. He obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) from the Royal Academy of Music with a thesis about style and performance issues of the early trio sonata in England and France. Johannes Pramsohler was a prizewinner at the 2011 Magdeburg International Telemann Competition. In 2010 he was awarded the Futura Award for young South Tyroleans abroad and in 2019 the Vincent Meyer award of the Royal Academy of Music. Since 2008 he has had the honour of owning Reinhard Goebel’s violin, a P. G. Rogeri made in 1713.

Booklet for The Paris Album