RIGODONS: From jazz to baroque!

Noé Becaus viola da gamba / Sophie Pieraggi baroque violins / Marguerite Dehors baroque violin / Rose Dehors sackbut, recorder, percussion / Matthew Bourne harpsichord / Fanny Martin flutes /Laurent Dehors conductor , composer, saxophones, clarinets, bagpipes, percussion

Tous Dehors joins forces with young musicians specializing in early music to embark on an ambitious project blending jazz and Baroque music! Laurent Dehors' saxophones and clarinets, Fanny Martin's flutes and Marguerite Dehors and Sophie Pieraggi's baroque violins are joined by Noé Becaus' viola da gamba, Matthew Bourne's harpsichord and Rose Dehors' sackbut! An atypical line-up for this musical voyage from the 17th century to the present day.

Following on from his Petites Histoires de l'Opéra, which revisits the great hits of operatic history (Opus 1 premiered in 2010, Opus 2 in 2018), Laurent Dehors has created a brand new composition with the desire and pleasure of hearing his music with the sound of period instruments, in which the sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach and Jean-Philippe Rameau echo the jazz grooves of the Tous Dehors artists.

This decompartmentalization of genres, bringing together ancient and modern music, leads to the exploration of other modes of playing, new sound combinations and harmonic compositions, creating original and unexpected colors. The sackbut is enhanced with a mute, and string instruments are prepared in different ways.

For example, Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Badinerie is broken down into four pieces, creating an "acceleration" from reggae where the aristocrats find themselves in the mud of the bayous, through the Turkich Badinerie and its asymmetrical measures, then a frantic chase between the flute and harpsichord worthy of a Tex Avery film, to finish with a melancholic, improvised landing of the clarinet on a bed of strings in pizzicato, glissando and col legno... Laurent Dehors' Frotte and Charrettes et carrosses, evoking the notion of "attraction-repulsion", allude to the complexity and instability of the world.

Despite the centuries that separate them, technically speaking, jazz and baroque music have a lot in common: musicians of the baroque period possessed great improvisational and compositional skills, just like jazz today. These obvious similarities are revisited and sublimated in an extraordinary concert, like a period rigodon (a French folk dance from the Baroque period). So come "rigoder" and laugh along with us to the joyous rhythms of this new artistic and human adventure! It's up to you to discover the rest of this journey... !