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LES SACQUEBOUTIERS DE TOULOUSE
Artistic directors : Jean-Pierre Canihac
and Daniel Lassalle.
Les Sacqueboutiers, an ensemble based in
Toulouse, playing on early brass instruments Les Sacqueboutiers
have been in existence for just over a quarter of a century,
during which time they have built up a reputation as one of
the finest early music ensembles on the international scene.
Regarded by specialists and the public alike as a reference
in the interpretation of seventeenth-century instrumental
music, particularly that of Italy and Germany, the ensemble
has reaped the highest awards for its recordings.
The group comprises a nucleus of cornetts
and sackbuts, which are joined, as the needs arise, by other
instruments (violins, viols, bassoons, shawms) and vocalist(s)
(a soloist, a group of ten or so singers, or a vocal quartet).
Flexibility is necessary in the performance of such a varied
repertoire.
In collaboration with specialised musicologists,
Les Sacqueboutiers often work on revivals. Indeed, one of the
ensemble’s major objectives is to play an active part
in the gradual rediscovery of the very fine works that make
up our European musical heritage. |
