Les Ages du Monde

Digital release: December 12th 2025
UK release: January 16th 2026

A programme that explores music from France in the 16th and 17th centuries. The works presented here include fantasies on popular songs, dances, and a suite, demonstrating the extreme versatility of the viola da gamba. Although the French golden age for the viol was between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries - represented here with works by Charpentier, Metru and Lully - the programme also gives prominence to earlier compositions, with dances and fantasies by Caroubel, Le Jeune, Moulinie, Du Caurroy, Louis Couperin and Du Mont. Finally, the programme also includes three pieces for solo guitar by Francois Campion, performed by guest musician James Akers. A programme that emphasises elegance, refined melancholy, beautiful sound and a subtle dialogue between the different instruments.