Ensemble Correspondances

Founded in Lyon in 2009, Correspondances brings together under the direction of the harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé a group of singers and instrumentalists, all of whom are specialists in the music of the Grand Siècle. In a few short years of existence, Correspondances has become a benchmark ensemble in the seventeenth-century French repertory. Placing itself under the auspices of Baudelaire’s notion of correspondences between the arts, it performs music whose sonorities can still directly touch today’s listeners while presenting staged productions of rarer and more original forms. The rediscovery of previously unpublished works, and the expression of a style as close as possible to the 17th Century’s, is at the core of the ensemble's project. Its long-term research programs have led to moving events, such as the monumental reconstruction of the Coronation of Louis XIV, or of the music of the Ballet Royal de la Nuit, thus allowing us to rediscover a major musical moment of the 17th Century, which inaugurated the reign of the Sun King. Off the beaten track, Correspondances brings polyphony and lyrical to places where they are not expected. Since 2020, the ensemble has been cycling the roads every summer, bringing the 17th Century music at the heart of Normandy. A musical, sporting and Norman adventure for all ages.