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The CD
"Al
piacere del Signore G.F. Haendel"
has been released by ORF in May 2009.
“An exciting first
record with such a nerve ! Two magician sisters reinvent for 4 hands and 2
harpsichords the Water Music or the "Scherza infida" of
Ariodante!“
« Exercice périlleux autant
que discogénique, le duo de clavecins nous a valu quelques
merveilles...(...) Chani et Nadja Lesaulnier, aixoises installées à Bâle
depuis leurs études à la Schola Cantorum, prennent la relève avec
une autorité et un culot formidable. (...)
Plus que l’admiration (immédiate), l’exploit appelle la sympathie. (...) La
transcription ici, ne réduit pas, elle recrée en s’abreuvant à l’imaginaire.
Nos jeunes virtuoses n’ont peur de rien. Les numéros avec cors de Water Music
pétaradent plus vrai que nature, le «Venti turbini» de Rinaldo se
métamorphose en duel de bravoure con cadenza (...). Encore plus gonflé :
«Scherza infida», l’immense déploration d’Ariodante.
Nouveau défi : comment faire chanter, pleurer, rugir, deux clavecins
juchés pendant dix minutes sur un lit d’accords rebattus ? Comment ?
Par le goût, le tact, le sens du chant doublé d’un art consommé de
l’ornementation, et surtout la qualité du toucher. (...) »
Gaëtan Naulleau - Magazine DIAPASON N°659 - Mai 2009
The PCB of the Lesaulnier sisters !
The duo Le Petit
Concert Baroque was founded by the harpsichordist sisters Chani and Nadja
Lesaulnier in 2002. Born in 1984 and 1986 in Aix-en-Provence, Chani & Nadja
Lesaulnier studied with Pierre Hantaï and Elisabeth Joyé in Paris. They
attended the external degree course of Béatrice Martin and acquired a deeper
understanding of chamber music with Manfredo Kraemer at the Escuola Superior de
Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona. In the same period they had the opportunity
to study with Dirk Börner.
In 2003, Chani and
Nadja Lesaulnier began studies at the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis with Jesper B. Christensen, Andrea Marcon and
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, as well as with Andreas Scholl, Paolo Pandolfo, Gerd
Türk and David Plantier. There they both completed a harpsichord soloist
Diploma with Honours in 2007.
Parallel to her
harpsichordist career, Nadja studies baroque violin, mainly with David
Plantier, as well as baroque doublebass.
Le Petit Concert
Baroque has played in concert throughout Europe, including the 2005 and 2007
editions of the Vienna Alte-Musik Festival "Italia Mia", the
Europäische Musikfest Stuttgart 2005 with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the
Schaffhausener Bach-Festspiele and the Festival "Barock in Zürich"
2006 with La Cetra (dir. A.Marcon), the Fringe Series of the Festival Oude
Muziek Utrecht 2006.
As solo
harpsichordist, Nadja Lesaulnier won the 2nd prize at the International
Harpsichord Competition Paola Bernardi in Bologna in November 2007 and the 1st
price in May 2008 in the Schmelzer International Competition in Melk (Austria).
Le Petit Concert Baroque is Prize-winner at the Schmelzer
International Competition 2005 in Melk and won the 2de prize at the Premio
Bonporti 2008 in Rovereto, Italy.
Le Petit Concert
Baroque has released his first CD entitled "Al Piacere del Signore G.F.
Haendel" on the Austrian Radio label, ORF Alte Musik. This record is
dedicated to Haendel's Ouvertures, Arias, Choirs and extracts of Opera and
Orchestral Suites transcribed by C. & N. Lesaulnier for two harpsichords.
It has already been acclaimed by the critics with a "DIAPASON
DECOUVERTE" of the musical magazine Diapason (issue N° 569, May 2009).
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