Marais - Pieces de Violes | Mirare MIR386

Marais - Pieces de Violes

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Label: Mirare

Cat No: MIR386

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 26th January 2018

Contents

Artists

La Reveuse

Artists

La Reveuse

About

Marin Marais possesses the grace, elegance and wit so appealing in the goût français of the eighteenth century. The character pieces of his last two books depict portraits, landscapes and little genre scenes in painterly fashion, and are an unsurpassed highpoint of the viol repertory.

Tracklisting:
1. Prélude
2. Le Jeu du Volant
3. Le Petit Badinage
4. Le Rondeau Villeneuve
5. Rondeau Le Troilleur
6. Les Barricades Mystérieuses* (François Couperin)
7. Prélude
8. Gavotte Singulière
9. Rondeau Le Bijou
10. Fête Champêtre
11. La Biscayenne
12. Le Badinage
13. La Paraza
14. Le Tact
15. Le Dodo ou l’Amour au Berceau* (François Couperin)
16. Rondeau Le Doucereux
17. La Provençale
18. La Rêveuse
*Transcription for theorbo

La Rêveuse:
- Florence Bolton (bass viol)
- Benjamin Perrot (theorbo, baroque guitar)
- Carsten Lohff (harpsichord)
- Robin Faro (bass viol)

Reviews

If you’re thinking ‘ah, just another recording of French viol pieces’, think again. You couldn’t be more wrong. This recording by Florence Bolton and theorbist Benjamin Perrot with members of their ensemble La Rêveuse breaks new ground. The challenges of playing the seven-string bass viol, and the French repertoire in particular, are well known, but Marais himself would have immediately recognised and appreciated Florence Bolton’s artistry and commitment to his music. These are sublimely unfettered performances, perfectly judged and yet remarkably improvisatory in spirit.  Julie Anne Sadie
Gramophone April 2018
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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