Ensemble Brezza

Ensemble Brezza and the Improvised Prelude: Rediscovering a Practice between the 17th and 18th Centuries

PROGRAMME:

THE ART OF PRELUDING

Day 1

• Preludio (improvisation)
• Georg Friedrich Händel Ouverture from Rinaldo (arr. Ensemble Brezza)
• Preludio (improvisation)
• Jacques Morel Défense de la basse de viole: Chaconne for three instruments in G minor

Day 2

• Preludio (improvisation)
• Johann Joachim Quantz Flute Sonata in G major No. 273: Presto ma fiero
• Georg Friedrich Händel Flute Sonata No. 2 in E minor “Halle Sonata”
• Preludio (improvisation)
• Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata for viola da gamba in G minor, BWV 1029
• François Couperin Les Goûts-réunis, Fourteenth Concert: Sarabande

Day 3

• Preludio (improvisation)
• Jean-Marie Leclair Sonata in D major: Sarabande
• Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in E minor
• Preludio (improvisation)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau
  Pièces de clavecin en concerts
  Concert No. 5 in D minor: La Forqueray / La Cupis / La Marais

There is an ancient gesture that prepares listening: the improvised prelude, a brief moment of warming up, tuning, and sonic imagination. Ensemble Brezza places this practice at the centre of a project that revives what was once essential for every professional musician, transforming it into a narrative device—piece by piece, “chapter” by chapter.

Trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the three musicians bring together traverso, viola da gamba, and harpsichord in a journey through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The programme alternates extemporaneous preludes with works by Handel, Bach, Quantz, Couperin, Leclair, and Rameau, shaped by a narrative that unfolds differently each time: one day at a time.

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