Title: Tranquilles Coeurs
Artist: Ensemble Theodora
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3701624511978
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-04-10
Number of Discs: 1

In 2018, four friends studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London decided to form an ensemble they called Thodora. Mariamielle Lamagat (soprano), Louise Ayrton (baroque violin), Lucie Chabard (harpsichord) and Alice Trocellier (viola da gamba) explore French Baroque music and it’s ramifications. For their first recording, part of Alpha Classics’ “Baroque Stories” series, they decided to trace the French style in Germanic lands in the 18th century, where the dance forms, dotted rhythms, modulations and harmonies in vogue at the court of Louis XIV inspired composers to create numerous transcriptions, works and new instrumental practices. Johann Fischer and Johann Philipp Krieger make no secret of their admiration for Campra and Lully, whose music enjoyed considerable success across the Rhine. This programme features their magnificent “Duo de la paix et de la flicit” (Duet of Peace and Happiness), in a version preserved in Berlin, performed here with mezzo-soprano Adle Charvet. Bach is, of course, included: he admired the French organ school, particularly Jacques Boyvin, whose superb Rcit tendre, from the Second Livre d’Orgue (1700), Thodora has transcribed for violin, viola and basso continuo.

Tracks:
1.1 Herr Jesu Christ, Dich Zu Uns Wend-Variatio 1
1.2 Second Livre D’orgue (Paris, 1700)-Rcit Tendre (Suite Dans Le Premier Ton)
1.3 Motets Voix Seule ; Deux Dessus de Violons, Livre Second (Paris, 1699), Ecce Quam Bonum, Motet Voix Seule Et Deux Dessus de Violons-I. Ecce Quam Bonum
1.4 Motets Voix Seule ; Deux Dessus de Violons, Livre Second (Paris, 1699), Ecce Quam Bonum, Motet Voix Seule Et Deux Dessus de Violons-II. Quoniam Illic Mandavit Dominum
1.5 Armide-Entre de la Gloire Et de la Sagesse
1.6 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-I
1.7 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-II
1.8 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-III
1.9 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-IV. Allemanda
1.10 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-V. Courant
1.11 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-VI. Ballet
1.12 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-VII. Sarabanda
1.13 Sonata a 2 Universitetsbibliotek Uppsala (Manuscrit Instr, Mus, I HS. 11:10)-VIII. Gigue
1.14 Surgite Cum Gaudio a 3-I. Sonate, Surgite Cherubim
1.15 Surgite Cum Gaudio a 3-II. Jesus Christus Rex Triumphat
1.16 Surgite Cum Gaudio a 3-III. Hunc Dei Filium
1.17 Surgite Cum Gaudio a 3-IV. Quia de Morte Di Satana, Alleluja
1.18 Triomphe de L’amour-Entre D’apollon
1.19 Ballet Des Arts-Duo de la Paix Et de la Flicit, Copie de la Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Manuscrit Am.B. 323)
1.20 Suite en Trio Tafelmusik (Hambourg, 1702)-I. Allemande
1.21 Suite en Trio Tafelmusik (Hambourg, 1702)-II. Angloisse
1.22 Suite en Trio Tafelmusik (Hambourg, 1702)-III. Gique
1.23 Suite en Trio Tafelmusik (Hambourg, 1702)-IV. Menuets
1.24 Suite en Trio Tafelmusik (Hambourg, 1702)-V. Ballet
1.25 Armide-Sourdine (Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schwerin, Manuscrit Mus.619)
1.26 George Dandin Ou Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles-Plainte de Cloris
1.27 Triomphe de L’amour-Ritornelle, Tranquilles Curs (Landesbibliothek Kassel, Manuscrit Israel-Anhang 30)
1.28 Triomphe de L’amour-Tranquilles Curs
1.29 Aria BWV 587 D’aprs L’impriale