ENSEMBLE CONCERTO SOAVE / FESTIVAL MARS EN BAROQUE - France

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Mars en Baroque is a festival around early music that takes place every March in different places in Marseille. Curious, greedy for experiences and encounters, it offers to come and discover the vitality of this music by exploring all their riches.
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Concerto Soave is a Baroque music ensemble founded by María Cristina Kiehr and Jean-Marc Aymes. It celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2022 and is currently conducted by Jean-Marc Aymes and baritone Romain Bockler.

ENSEMBLE CONCERTO SOAVE / FESTIVAL MARS EN BAROQUE
38 Rue Longue Des Capucins, 13001 Marseille, France / + 33(0) 6 19 25 18 48 / diffusion@concerto-soave.com

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“Venite Exultemus” - Recording release

France

Release date: October 31, 2025, on the Ricercar label (Outhere Music)

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Composers: André Campra, Nicolas Bernier

Artist: Concerto Soave

Label: Ricercar

Release date: October 31, 2025
About this album

Like the cantata with instruments, the motet for solo voice and two upper parts, usually two violins, originated in Italy at the dawn of the 17th century. It was introduced to France not only by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, but also by Italians traveling in France. The motet became one of the main “ambassadors” of Italian taste and style. At the beginning of the 18th century, it found two magnificent exponents, who were practically contemporaries: André Campra and Nicolas Bernier.

Campra's natural attraction to Italian music is easily explained: he was the son of an Italian doctor who had settled in Aix-en-Provence and was a pupil of the great Poitevin in the same city. As for Bernier, according to some sources, this could be explained by the fact that he was a student in Rome of the Venetian Antonio Caldara, one of the most important composers of his time.