Sébastien Daucé

The sacred music from the French Baroque has generally lacked champions of the type which have revivified Italian Baroque performance, however the work of French conductor, keyboardist, and musicologist Sébastien Daucé is changing that situation. Blessed June 4, 1980, Daucé went to the Conservatoire Country wide Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and majored in early music. His schooling there was mixed, encompassing harpsichord, body organ, continuo playing, and performing, and by 2006 he previously fallen along with several like-minded students who had been interested in discovering French music from the past due 17th century, most importantly that of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. In 2006 and 2007, he offered as an helper to Americo-French harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss on the Aix-en-Provence Lyric Arts Celebration, gaining contact with the group of French Baroque performers encircling Weiss’ American-born affiliate, William Christie. Certainly inspired with the pioneering historical-performance heart of these statistics, Daucé and his close friends were thinking about another thing: the seductive, inward, and Italianate music of Charpentier a lot more than the “flashy,” “demonstrative” globe of Lully. They officially emerged jointly as the Outfit Correspondances in 2008. Right from the start, the group continues to be marked by a distinctive mix of musicological-research orientation and a dedicated heart in functionality. They have received beyond the few “strikes” by Charpentier by playing through huge amounts of unrecorded materials themselves and noting what they enjoyed greatest. The group toured Japan in ’09 2009 to a keen reception. The initial Outfit Correspondances documenting, O Maria! Psaumes et Motets Marc-Antoine Charpentier, made an appearance this year 2010 over the Zig Zag Territoires label, as well as the group documented yet another album for Zig Zag Territoires before shifting to the bigger multinational Harmonia Mundi for the wonderful and practically unheard Litanies de la Vierge (Litanies from the Virgin) in 2012. With seven albums on Harmonia Mundi under their belts by 2017, the Outfit Correspondances had started to explore composers apart from Charpentier, although he continued to be central within their repertoire on recordings and in efficiency. They have documented or made programs to record music by Antoine Boësset, Michel Richard de Lalande, Henri du Mont, and Etienne Moulinié, the majority of everything but unknown however of central importance in the old age of what’s rightly referred to as the Grand Siècle. Daucé frequently conducts through the body organ in sacred music, favoring little groups that may convey the reflective quality from the music Charpentier had written for his Italophilic patroness, Marie of Lorraine.