DUO EDELMANN

Lucie de Saint Vincent and Baroque violinist and Doctor of Musicology Rachel Stroud formed Duo Edelmann in 2011 after having met as students at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. Since then, their collaboration has deepened through professional-development programmes at the Royaumont Abbey centred on the practice of the accompanied keyboard sonata, a musical form that emerged in 18th-century France. This practice, which explores the expressive affordances of keyboard instruments, creates a unique and intimate relationship between the piano and the violin, which Lucie and Rachel particularly enjoy investigating. In these works, they have discovered a little-known French repertoire that is as consequential as it is remarkable and which continues to inspire the duo.

In 2013, the duo realised an exceptional recording of a sonata by Ignace Antoine(?) Ladurner at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, using a copy built by Christopher Clarke of an 1802 Erard grand piano in the collection of the Musée de la Musique. In 2014, they also recorded the sonatas of Beethoven at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Paris, applying their vision of the accompanied sonata to these works.

In 2024, Duo Edelmann devoted itself to the accompanied sonatas of French women composers at the turn of the 19th century, including an artist residency at the Turbine in Burgundy. Their musical explorations concentrated on works for piano solo and sonatas with violin accompaniment, spotlighting composers who have often been neglected but whose contributions are nevertheless musically rich. This project has allowed them to discover and revive these exceptional musical works, not only enriching the duo’s repertoire but also offering the public a new and captivating perspective on French classical music.

Duo Edelmann has had the honour of sharing their researches on numerous international stages and at prestigious festivals, including: Les Invalides (Paris), the Musée de la Musique (Paris), the Royaumont Abbey, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Bibliothèque Marmottan (Boulogne-Billancourt), the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Geneva), Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Bach Festival Dordrecht, the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), and Vredenburg (Utrecht).

Performers:

Rachel Stroud: Baroque violin, Doctor of Musicology (University of Cambridge)
Lucie de Saint Vincent: Fortepiano

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