• Michel Pignolet de Monteclair: Morte di Lucretia
  +Bernardo Pasquini: Sinfonia aus Il Martirio dei Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia
  +Alessandro Scarlatti: Lucretia Romana
  Benedetto Marcello: Lucrezia; Concerto a cinque f-moll op. 1 Nr. 7
  +Georg Friedrich Händel: Lucrezia HWV 145

When she was raped by Sextus Tarquin, the son of the Etruscan king occupying Rome, Lucretia took the floor to describe her martyrdom and demand justice. Refusing to live in disgrace, she took her own life. This episode, described by Titus Livy, is considered to be the birth of the Roman Republic and is the origin of numerous sculptural, literary and musical works. Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins explore this founding story and place the only four baroque cantatas composed on this theme that are still known today in a new context. In these miniature operas, Alessandro Scarlatti, Montéclair, Handel and Marcello set Lucretia's speech to music: alternating between expressionistic recitatives and virtuoso arias, these monologues follow Lucretia's emotional and expressive path, from whisper to cry, from exaltation to despondency, until the final silence. To give her shape, Jérôme Correas collaborates with four of the most beautiful French voices - Sandrine Piau, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Karine Deshayes and Lucile Richardot: each of them thus takes on the story of Lucrezia, which reaches us unchanged in its power and violence, intersecting with the narratives of today and questioning the contemporary female voice.