Ophélie Gaillard / Pulcinella Orchestra VIVALDI I Colori dell' Ombra

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Ophélie Gaillard / Sandrine Piau / Pulcinella Orchestra BOCCHERINI

This season 18/19 Ophélie Gaillard will be performing as a soloist with the Filharmonia Slovenska under the direction of James Judd, with the National Orchestra of Brittany conducted by Marc Feldman and with her ensemble, the Pulcinella Orchestra. Her repertoire includes Boccherini’s concertos, CPE Bach, Vivaldi, Schumann, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Roccoco Theme, and Nino Rota’s transcriptions.

She can be heard in Paris (Radio-France auditorium, the cycle of the Army Museum) and in the French provinces as well as abroad (tours in Italy, Singapore, Germany).

In the spring of 2019 a double monographic record will be released, dedicated to Luigi Boccherini with the Pulcinella Orchestra and Sandrine Piau, published by the Aparté label and distributed by HM.

Ophélie Gaillard will be a member of the jury of the prestigious competition of the ARD of Munich and will give masterclasses at the French American school of Fontainebleau, in Munich, during the Musicalp summer academy in Tignes, as well as at the High School of Music of Geneva.

After a first album about Boccherini, that was acclaimed by the press in 2007 (awarded with the Choc du Monde de la Musique, distinctions in Strad and BBC Magazine), Ophélie Gaillard joins Sandrine Piau and the Pulcinella Orchestra again in a double album that is a tribute to the brilliant Tuscan cellist.

Ophélie Gaillard / Pulcinella BACH Arias

Ophelie Gaillard has made recently a deep impression with the Suites for cello solo by Jean-Sebastian Bach. On this new recording, dedicated to the Cantor of Leipzig, she gathered her close team from the Pulcinella Ensemble and invited some of the most talented soloists: Sandrine Piau, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Christophe Dumaux.

This programme gives a vision of the most beautiful cantatas written by Jean-Sebastian Bach in Leipzig from 1723 to 1750, interspersed with some of the masterpieces from the 'Schübler' Chorales and Orgelbüchlein.

With a passion for Baroque music played on period instruments, Pulcinella is a group of virtuoso soloists, gathered in a chamber spirit around cellist Ophélie Gaillard. Highly experienced musicians, who attach great importance to sound and articulation, they explore some of the major works of the repertoire, while aiming to present little known or unknown pieces as well.

Part of Pulcinella’s repertoire is devoted to important 17th- and 18th-century works for concerted cello, of which it is one of the foremost ambassadors. The ensemble’s first recording, devoted to Vivaldi’s complete Cello Sonatas (on Ambroisie) was highly acclaimed by the international press in 2006. The following year its tribute (with Sandrine Piau and Rolf Lislevand) to the cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini also received excellent reviews, including praise from The Times.

Pulcinella works with singers including Nuria Rial, Salomé Haller, Sandrine Piau, Max Emmanuel Cencic, Xavier Sabata, Christophe Dumaux, Carlos Mena, Dietr ich Henschel, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, who are among its guests at major festivals, such as those of Saint-Denis, Beaune, and Santiago de Compostela, and at venues such as the Cité de la Musique and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Ophélie Gaillard / Pulcinella Orchestra CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH Vol. 2

After the success of their first volume Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella propose a second disc devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach's most talented and surprising son, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788). The Sinfonia in C major expresses multiple emotions, ranging from irrepressible suffering in the Adagio to joyous release and insouciance in the concluding Allegretto, tinged with near-Mozartian grace. The Cello Concerto in B flat reveals the influence of the waning Baroque era and Vivaldi in particular. The Sinfonia in E minor, nicknamed 'Fandango' and dating from his Berlin years, is commonly regarded as one of his finest symphonies. The particularly virtuosic Sonata for cello piccolo and keyboard shows to advantage the two soloists of this recording: Ophélie Gaillard and Francesco Corti, whose fieriness is further revealed in the Harpsichord Concerto in D minor. (Presto Classical)