| The conductor and keyboard player Martin Gester is one of the ornaments of the French early music scene. Not, it is true, one of its flashier, more glittering ornaments, but a musician whose thoughtful authority and integrity inform a wide range of repertoire with a convincing combination of insight and refinement. Brian Robins caught up with Martin Gester in Paris, where he was in the midst of a series of performances of Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass, which he was performing along with several of the composer’s Litanies with Le Parlement de Musique, the ensemble he founded in 1990. With him was his wife Aline Zylberajch, a distinguished keyboard player in her own right, whose help with the occasional language problem in the ensuing discussion is gratefully acknowledged. |
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