Cellist Charles-Antoine Duflot (b. 1986) has won numerous prizes since 1999, including first prizes at the U.F.A.M. Competition in Paris, the 2009 Int’l J&A Beare Solo Bach Competition in London, the 2010 Int’l Beethoven Competition in Hradec-nad-Moravici and the 2011 Possehl Music Prize in Lübeck. In May 2013 he won first prize at the violoncello competition “Ton und Erklärung – Werkvermittlung in Musik und Wort” (Tone and Explanation – Work Mediation in Music and Words) in Hanover. This CD, featuring works by Ortiz (d. 1570), Mundry (b. 1963), Bach and Poulenc, is the result of that prize.
