• Les Violons du Roy are a Canadian national treasure. The fame of the group outside Quebec had been based on music from before 1800 until their ATMA album Piazzolla stunned the musical world. Under conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Les Violons du Roy's surprising shift of style was a complete success: the ATMA Classique album won the Juno Award as Best Classical Album of the Year (solo or chamber ensemble), has been added to regular play-lists of both public and commercial radio, and was described as 'Scintillating, sexy, electric, elegant, sensuous, risky, robust, just plain exciting and entertaining' by the international press (Classics Today.com 10/10 – USA).  • For their fourth album on ATMA, Zeitouni and Les Violons du Roy again demonstrate that their musical range does not stop in the year 1800. As Piazzolla would do a generation or two later in Argentina, Bartók put the devices and techniques of Western classical music at the service of the folk music of his homeland. • Jean-Marie Zeitouni is Principal Guest Conductor of Les Violons du Roy, and is in great demand as an opera conductor. • Produced by ATMA founder and president Johanne Goyette; recorded and digitally mastered by ATMA’s Anne-Marie Sylvestre in February 2008 at the new Salle Raoul-Jobin of the Palais Montcalm, Québec City.
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