Géraldine Cozier & Nicolas Dechêne

Géraldine Cozier (voice) and Nicolas Dechêne (guitar) meet around the songs of John Dowland and Henry Purcell. Between Elizabethan heritage and contemporary boldness, their duo InDowland proposes a singular reading of this repertoire.\nHere, early music becomes living matter. Each piece finds a new intensity, as if these ballads of love and loss were speaking to us of today. Between purity and vibration, this concert proposes a striking rediscovery of 16th-century English pop.\n"Indolence, n.f.": chosen slowness that disarms urgency, delicate abandonment where gesture and soul agree with the sensitive.\nAn invitation to listen differently.\nTo feel what crosses the centuries.\nTo let oneself be surprised.\nJohn Dowland (1563-1626): symbol above all of this sweet melancholy in which Elizabethan music willingly indulges, Dowland, lutenist and singer admired in his time, practically contented himself with composing for his own use, thus leaving us a flowering of Songs or Aires and pieces for lute which, by their poetry and delicate sensitivity, were enough to ensure his glory.\nHenri Purcell (1659-1695): great English master of the second half of the 17th century, Purcell eclipsed his contemporaries in all fields: stage music, keyboard music, chamber music, etc. His musical style synthesizes the French, English, and Italian influences of the time. Considered a genius in his time, he was then ignored for several centuries.