Obsession
“As she rises ever higher on the early-music scene, Canadian violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay has displayed an improvisatory flair as brilliant as you might hear from the most seasoned professional. A creative thinker, her repertoire choices routinely shed light on lesser-known figures, and she has staked her claim as a vibrant chamber musician and soloist in works by Johan Helmich Roman, Johann Schmelzer, Heinrich Biber, and an array of others. […] With Obsession, her most recent release, improvisatory gestures serve a highly dramatic purpose. Built upon repetitive grounds, the lines of this music stew and ruminate like the obsessive thoughts suggested by the album’s title. That the pieces by Biber, Dieterich Buxtehude, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, and François Francoeur are all cast in the minor key only enhance the violinist’s innate feel for angst and apprehension.”
Basta parlare !
“De tout cela transpire un vrai plaisir de jouer, avec un sens inné du rebondissement rythmique et de l’ornementation. On est loin de certains ensembles qui jouent cette musique avec bien trop de sérieux…9/10 ”
La Presse
Préludes et Solitudes
Un album très personnel de musique baroque pour violon seul.
“[…] S’en dégage une énergie planante et sereine, où les envolées virtuoses sont circonspectes et concentrées. On reste dans une force tranquille contemplative où le temps semble devenir élastique. Sans être redondant, le narratif qui est tissé par Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, tant musicalement que par ses illustrations et ses poèmes qui accompagnent chacune des pièces, est assemblé de telle façon qu’on demeure accroché à l’écoute puisqu’on a l’impression d’entendre une histoire où différentes dynamiques se font entendre.” - Panm360
“Nadeau-Tremblay takes the listener on a journey through the long seasons of the pandemic. We hear everything from gusts of spring wind and summer’s bird calls to long, cold, tranquil winters, still alone, still wondering, still improvising. It’s a wonderfully, terribly intimate album that feels like one seamless whole, something to sit with in private contemplation. Some of these works feel like they call the listener to awaken to new possibilities; others cry with the weight of the world’s grief; still others laugh in spite of it all. Every note, every rasp of the bow hair upon string, every human breath, every pizzicato feels defiant, challenging the interminable solitude to a duel. Nadeau-Tremblay wins.” - Early Music America
“Marie Nadeau-Tremblay’s exceptional violin playing both honors their memory and captivates today’s listeners. She evokes the many moods of the program with unlimited expressive gestures at her command.” - American Record Guide
"ATMA publie aussi le premier disque de sa nouvelle vedette baroque, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, et de son ensemble, Les Barocudas. Dans son enregistrement La peste, la violoniste montre qu’elle a un caractère très affirmé. Sans concessions, elle livre une musique brute, presque astringente... Marie Nadeau-Tremblay est à suivre" - Le DEVOIR
"La Peste 'includes finely executed performances of works that capture senses of spontaneity and affirmation. Violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay renders the solo part with the grace of a dancer, spinning flowing lines and tossing off the double stops with ease. Viola da gambist Ryan Gallagher and harpsichordist Nathan Mondry provide supple continuo support. The singular, improvisatory nature of this music makes a strong statement for our own age — joy, however fleeting, must remain resilient in the face of unpleasant things'.” - Early Music America
