Because

Description

At a time when Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven made up the musical canon of Western Europe, the songs of enslaved people from Africa resonated in the colonies across the Atlantic, expressing pain and nostalgia, but also joy and a desire for freedom. American countertenor Reginald Mobley - a rising figure in baroque music, particularly under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner, with whom he sings very regularly - and French pianist Baptiste Trotignon, a winner of numerous awards (Victoires du Jazz, Django d'Or…) have combined their talents and sensitivities to celebrate these spirituals and the music of Black composers such as Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) and Florence Price (1887-1953), whose beautiful transcriptions and melodies blend with the subtle arrangements that Baptiste Trotignon has created for the famous Sometimes I feel like a motherless child and I got a robe… The melody "Because," composed by Florence Price to a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, inspired the title of the album: Because I loved so deeply (…) Because I loved so vainly… Why this album? Because…