Denis Raisin Dadre
1989-1990 Doulce Mémoire formed in Paris (soprano, two viols, lute,
recorder). Performance at the Auditorium du Louvre: 'Le Livre du Courtisan'
(based on Castiglione's 'Il Cortegiano' - 'The Courtier').
1991 Festival du
Vieux Lyon, 'Le Parangon des Chansons'.
1992 Auditorium du Louvre, 'Il Tempo si
Rinuova', concert with iconographical staging.
1993 'Il Studio dilettevole',
produced by the Ambronay Festival.
1994 'Il Studio dilettevole' on tour (France,
Switzerland, the Netherlands). First performance of the 'Rabelais and Music'
programme at the Lanvellec Festival. Addition of hauts instruments (cornett,
sackbut, shawms, percussion).
1995 Festival d'Ile-de-France: 'A Renaissance evening in 1830'. Release, to great
acclaim, of the ensemble's first CD, 'Chansons
et danceries'
(works published by Pierre Attaingnant). Addition of a
vocal quartet.
1996 'Messe de mariage de Rogier', with La Fenice and the Namur Choir, on tour in
Belgium. Release of Doulce Mémoire's highly-acclaimed CD,
'Les
Fricassées lyonnaises' .
1997 On tour in Croatia. Concerts at the Beaune,
Montreux and Ribeauvillé festivals.
Third CD, 'Le
Livre du Courtisan' , showered
with awards.
1998 'La Dive Bouteille' (a 'Renaissance 'cabaret'); tour of
Eastern Europe. Télérama Nuit des ffff (L'Olympia, Paris).
Release of the CD 'Il
Trionfo di Bacco'
, voted Record of the Year by the record magazine Diapason.
Move to Tours (Région Centre).
1999 International tour: USA, Japan, Germany.
Concerts in Italy (Villa Medici), Portugal, Switzerland.
Release of the CD 'Requiem
des Rois de France'
Many awards, including Record of the Year (Monde de
la Musique). 'Le Jardin des Délices'(directed by Mireille Laroche) with La
Péniche Opéra at the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
2000 Celebration of Doulce Mémoire's tenth
anniversary! Performances of 'Le Jardin des Délices' in Taiwan. New work: 'La
Roulotte du Savetier Calbain', on tour (Région Centre). Programme: 'Musiques
pour la cérémonie de mariage
de Henri IV et Marie de Médicis'; presentation at Sully-sur-Loire, Lyon,
Florence, Bologna. Release of the CD 'Viva
Napoli'
(Diapason d'Or, 10 de Répertoire, recommended by Classica.)
2001 Further
engagements in the USA, Spain, Portugal. Tour with 'La Roulotte duSavetier
Calbain'.
2002 Creation of the new production Derniers jours de fête, with tour
in the Centre region of France. Invitations to Saintes, Bergen, Fribourg,
Conques and Radio France. Creation of the new production The Field of Cloth of
Gold at Ambronay avec the british ensemble Cardinall's Musick and Paradis
d'amour in Picardy with Italian dance company Il Ballarino. Major tour in South
America (Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia).
2003 Léonard
de Vinci ,
recording and concert, around the exhibition devoted to Vinci at Le Louvre in
Päris. Creation in Picardy of The Harmony of the world written by Eugène Durif
with dancers of Il Ballarino. Great feast in Sully. Creation of the Chambord
International Renaissance Academy.
2004 New tour in South America (Brazil, Chile,
Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Columbia,
La Dive Bouteille-tour around Gap, France (with
the Théâtre de la Passerelle) Fête de la Musique at the French Senate, concerts
at Radio France, in Liege and in Sarrebourg 15th anniversary party in October at
the Salle Gaveau, Paris.
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