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A brilliant dancer before becoming “famous throughout Europe for his learned and elaborate sonatas, and for the elegance of his performance on the violin”, Jean-Marie Leclair is far more than the sum of his talents. His music is woven with the multiple threads of his life, carrying within it all the facets of his technical and musical explorations, his travels, his impressions, which have moulded man as much as musician. It is the man, of “noble simplicity”, alert and passionate to the end of his life, as much as the musician-dancer, fertile creator of virtuoso elegance, that this recording wishes to portray. His music, too rarely played, brings together the brightness of Italy, French taste without the rigidity of etiquette, love of the violin, of sound, and virtuosity that always allows poetry and beauty to take precedence. Le Concert Universel is a Swiss ensemble specialising in the baroque repertoire, founded in 2017 under the impetus of violinist Juliette Roumailhac, who conducts from the violin. The ensemble brings together artists who perform in the most prestigious ensembles and who are renowned for their virtuosity and the richness of their interpretation on period instruments.