Lautten Compagney - Dancing Queen - Rameau meets ABBA (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Combining these two absolute giants of European music history seems daring: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) and ABBA (1972-)! However, even a second listen reveals countless similarities. The originality and catchiness of their melodies, the rhythmic buoyancy, as well as their unrestricted popularity. Under the title Dancing Queen, the Lautten Compagney builds a bridge from the present to a time when it was less the Queens and more the Kings who were to be found on the dance floor. As with the Berlin ensemble's other cross-epochal projects, ABBA's music is arranged and played on instruments from the Baroque period and not just juxtaposed with Rameau's music. The music is sometimes so fused that it is almost impossible to recognise what comes from the pen of the high baroque Frenchman and what comes from the workshop of the Swedish pop quartet.

As a true dancing queen on her instrument, saxophonist Asya Fateyeva dances back and forth between the worlds. With great virtuosity, she elicits both fast runs and the finest lyrical, singing arias from her instrument. She has an endless palette of different sounds at her disposal and improvises with ease over a rock riff, be it by Rameau or ABBA. An ideal partner for the musicians of the experimental and playful lautten compagney BERLIN, with whom she released the highly acclaimed album ‘Time Travel’ in 2021 with pieces by Purcell and The Beatles.

TRACKLIST

1. Lautten Compagney - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
2. Lautten Compagney - Les Boréades, RCT 31: Contredanse en rondeau (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
3. Lautten Compagney - Voulez-Vous (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
4. Lautten Compagney - Naïs, RCT 49: Ouverture (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
5. Lautten Compagney - Mamma Mia (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
6. Lautten Compagney - Pièces de clavecin en concerts, Cinquième Concert, RCT 11: II. La Cupis (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
7. Lautten Compagney - Les Indes Galantes, RCT 44: Deuxième Entrée (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
8. Lautten Compagney - Thank You For The Music (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
9. Lautten Compagney - Les Indes Galantes, RCT 44: Premier et deuxième Tambourin (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
10. Lautten Compagney - Take A Chance On Me (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
11. Lautten Compagney - Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43: Chantons sur la musette (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
12. Lautten Compagney - Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43: Rossignols amoureux (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
13. Lautten Compagney - Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43: Chaconne (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
14. Lautten Compagney - Suite in D Major, RCT 3: I. Les tendres plaintes (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
15. Lautten Compagney - Dancing Queen (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
16. Lautten Compagney - Hippolyte et Aricie, RCT 43: Première et deuxième Gavotte (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
17. Lautten Compagney - Lay All Your Love On Me / Loure Grave (From Les Fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41, Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
18. Lautten Compagney - SOS (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble by Bo Wiget)
19. Lautten Compagney - Les Boréades, RCT 31: Entrée de Polymnie (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
20. Lautten Compagney - Waterloo (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
21. Lautten Compagney - Les Indes Galantes, RCT 44: Les Sauvages - Rondeau (Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)
22. Lautten Compagney - Money, Money, Money / Tambourin (From Les Fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41, Arr. for Baroque Ensemble & Saxophone by Bo Wiget)



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