François Lazarevitch
French flutist and bagpiper François Lazarevitch has expanded his range of interests to include traditional music from the European past and its interactions with what is known as Baroque music. He is the artistic director and leader of the ensemble Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, which he founded in 2005.
Lazarevitch was born on August 25, 1975, in France. When he was 16, Lazarevitch met Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume, an elderly keyboardist and a pioneer of historical performance in France. He went on to study at conservatories in Toulouse, Versailles, Brussels, and Paris; among his teachers were Barthold Kuijken, Daniel Brebbia, and Jean-Christophe Maillard. Lazarevitch continued his education by working with traditional musicians and dancers, taking up what would often be described as folk wind instruments, including the Irish flute and the bagpipes. The result was a style that combined Baroque music and the skills of traditional musicians. He has also worked with singers of traditional repertory, delved into Indian music, and more.
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, providing Lazarevitch with a canvas on which to explore the ensemble ramifications of this style, became a regular guest at festivals, including the Bach Academy of Arques-la-Bataille in Normandy and the Pontoise Baroque Festival. Lazarevitch has performed as a soloist with Le Concert d'Astrée, Les Talens Lyriques, Ensemble 1700, Capilla Flamenca, and Micrologus. He has an interest in contemporary music, having performed works by Vincent Bouchot, Annette Messager, and Gérard Pesson. Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien have recorded more than a dozen albums for the Alpha label, some of them for a series focusing on folk traditions. They made their debut in 2008 with A l'ombre d'un ormeau: Brunettes et contredanses, and they have recorded both mainstream classical repertory (Bach's flute sonatas) and traditional music (The High Road to Kilkenny). In 2017, Lazarevitch issued a solo recording of Telemann's 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute on Alpha. He has continued to record exclusively for that label, issuing albums devoted to a variety of Renaissance and Baroque music, including one featuring pieces from the recorder collection Der Fluyten Lust-Hof and one covering flute-and-piano sonatas of C.P.E. Bach. In 2023, Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien released Beauté Barbare, examining folk influences in the music of Telemann.
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17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Doux silence
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Julie Roset, Lucile Richardot
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 19 apr. 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
For Ever Fortune. Scottish Music in the 18th Century
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Robert Getchell
Keltisch - Released by Alpha Classics on 5 mrt. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beauté barbare
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 17 mrt. 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni, La tempesta di mare, Il gardellino & La notte
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 25 aug. 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
The High Road to Kilkenny : Gaelic Songs & Dances of C17-18
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Keltisch - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 mrt. 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Purcell: Songs & Dances
Tim Mead, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 12 okt. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Noël baroque
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Maîtrise de Radio France, Sofi Jeannin
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 14 okt. 2016
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
C. P. E. Bach: Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano
François Lazarevitch, Justin Taylor
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 4 mrt. 2022
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Sonates & solo pour la flûte traversière
François Lazarevitch, Jean Rondeau, Lucile Boulanger, Thomas Dunford
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2014
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Le berger poète: Suites & sonates pour flûte et musette
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Kamermuziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 4 jun. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Et la fleur vole. Airs de cour & à danser v. 1600
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 23 sep. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Telemann : 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute
Kamermuziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 mrt. 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 23 apr. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Polyphonies & danses autour de 1400 (Je voy le bon tens venir)
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 12 mrt. 2013
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Danses des Bergers, danses des Loups (Musiques traditionnelles du cœur de la France)
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
À l'ombre d'un ormeau
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Airs populaires harmonisés, de Chopin à Canteloube
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Françoise Masset, François Lazarevitch
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 21 jan. 2010
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo