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More than 50 000 copies has been sold of this great album of Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà. It will make you discover a wide range of classical and popular selection, all on the theme of the Devil… The ensemble succeeded in combining the virtuosity and the harmony of both worlds onto this recording that will please everyone. If during the Baroque and Classical periods the Devil had become in music an almost mythological figure, the Romantic movement had sometimes seen in him a confidant, almost elevating him to the rank of Muse. But popular imagination, legend and storytelling have always considered the Demon in a more favourable light; he is still the enemy of God but he is seen as rather a roguish roisterer, a rascally reveller; and when he becomes a jigging fiddler, why he’s almost a nice little devil! We speak of him, play his advocate and give him his due; we either find ourselves between him and the deep blue sea or end up with his own luck… In Quebec, great storytellers such as Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Louis Fréchette and Honoré Beaugrand have devoted to him their most entertaining tales. Entertaining: that’s the word. The great variety of music presented on this disc is aimed not at exorcising the Evil One but of making light at him. These mostly dare-devil works scoff at him or, quite the opposite, are inspired by him to conjure up spellbinding, entrancing sonorities. The premise of the record is not meant as a tribute to the Devil; it is a tribute by the women of La Pietà (not in the least she-devils) to the creative powers of those wonderful composers inspired by such a rich subject, which has nourished the imagination in a spectacular and magical way.