Forestare Baroque

Forestare Baroque is the 2nd album at NativeDSD by the Forestare guitar ensemble. It follows their popular album 12 Guitar Ensemble, also on the 2xHD label.

It is Exclusively Available in Stereo DSD 512 and DSD 256 at NativeDSD Music.

The privilege of having an art gallery as a rehearsal space, being surrounded by works of painters and sculptors such as David Altmejd, David Spriggs, Marc Séguin, Armand Vaillancourt, Ugo Rondinone amongst the many others in the private collection of l’Arsenal de Montreal where Forestare has been in residence since 2014, inspired our group to do something innovative.

Founded in 2002 the group, which consists of 12 Guitars, 2 Double Basses and occasionally some percussion, specialized principally in playing and creating music of our time and arranging popular music. The beauty of the fine art which surrounds us in this temple for the visual arts gave us the impetus to record paradoxically an album of baroque music, with the unusual modern twist of performing it with our particular formation. This was a new direction for the group; an opportunity to explore this immense body of immortal music’s abundance of masterpieces, and to introduce this important period to a new audience.

The recording took place at the Église St-Augustin in Mirabel, a church known for its fine acoustics. Three Schoeps M-22 omnidirectional microphones were used (The Decca tree), wired to a tube preamplifier which was connected directly to an MSB Platinum A/D converter with a 192kHz/24 bit resolution. The recorder was a Nagra Seven, powered by Nagra MPS batteries. All inter-connect were Siltech silver cables.

Forestare
Dave Pilon, Conductor & Arranger