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Programs
"Trouble in Arcadia"
Cantatas with marionnettes by A. Scarlatti and F. Durante
with:
- Guillemette Laurens and Isabelle Poulenard, singers
- David Lippe and Philippe Rodrigez Jorda, marionnettes
- Jay Bernfeld (viola da gamba), Patricia Lavail (recorder), André Henrich (Theorbo), Laure Vovard (harpsichord)

Stage direction:  David Lippe
Scénographie: Anne-Laure Futin
Conception: Xavier Carrère
Musical direction: Jay Bernfeld
La Dafne, 1608
Favola in musica - Marco da Gagliano (1582-1643)
7 singers, 7 instrumentists
Recording to be published may 2008 by Arion
Canta Napoli
Naples, city of song… 400 years of Neapolitan song
7 musicians: singer, recorder, 3 viols, guitar, theorbo and percussions
Issued  in september 2006 by Arion with Mathieu Abelli
The Curtain rises… or the birth of the opera
Italian Music, XVIe et XVIIe s
6 to 8 musicians: singers, viols, theorbo, harpsichord, recorder
with Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano
Fantasy in Blue
Purcell and Gershwin reunited: from Dido’s Lament to Summertime
6 musicians: singer, 4 viols, recorder
David's Harp
David's psalms by B. Marcello
5 musicians: singer, viols, theorbo and harp
Gentil Mia Donna : Petrarca e la musica
Petrarch's poems set to music 14th to 17th C
6 musicians: singer, vielle, percussion, viol, recorder and harp
The pen and the sword
John Dowland and Tobias Hume
3 musicians: singer, viol and theorbo
with Michael Bennett, tenor
Lachrimae or Seven Tears, pluie d'harmonie en sept larmes
John Dowland
8 musicians : singer, 5 viols, luth and recorder
with Philippe Jarroussky or Michael Bennett
Rue du Jour, Friends and Neighbours
Marin Marais, Louis de Caix d'Hervelois and Joseph Bodin de Boimortier
4 musicians : viol, recorder, guitar and theorbo, harpsichord
The Magic Touch
Marais, Forqueray, Couperin,the golden age of the viol
4 musicians : viol, theorbo, recorder and harpsichord
Noël à la Havane
Villancicos et Cantadas d'Esteban Salas (1725-1803)
8 à 11 musiciens : chanteur, violons, flûte à bec, harpe, violes de gambe, guitare, théorbe et percussions