La Rhétorique des Dieux baroque to arrangements of traditional songs

to arrangements of traditional songs such as “Maria durch ein Dornwald ging” (Mary Walked Through a Thorn Forest)

His playing has been influenced much by his studies of traditional Japanese arts such as tea ceremony

emotional and deeply honest expression of a distinctive musical soul travelling the many roads of life

Performed by Florent Marie

by engaging with the emptiness between the sounds

La Rhétorique des Dieux baroque to arrangements of traditional songsOn this album, lutenist Toyohiko Satoh takes on one of the most famous and enigmatic works of French baroque lute literature: The collection "La Rhtorique des Dieux" published by Denis Gaultier (1603 1672). Satoh's interpretation is entirely committed to the profound simplicity and clarity of this music, which for him carries the spirit of Japanese Zen and only begins to shine not through virtuosity and emotion but, on the contrary, by engaging with