Barricades without borders and without mysteries for this album celebrating just the pleasure of playing together and sealing the friendship of two musicians whose nature and repertoire of their respective instruments are little suited to be played together. Iconoclastic, even insolent, the two young men proclaim themselves "freebooters of joy" on an album far removed from routine and boredom.
Jean Rondeau at the harpsichord and his partner Thomas Dunford at the archlute offer a stroll through a program of 17th and 18th century French music almost exclusively composed of... rondeaux (!) by Couperin, Visée, Lambert, Marin Marais and Rameau, in original arrangements for both instruments, to which Myriam Rignol's viola da gamba and the voices of Lea Desandre and Marc Mauillon sometimes respond. © François Hudry/Qobuz