Le Concert des Violes | Ricercar RIC284

Le Concert des Violes

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Label: Ricercar

Cat No: RIC284

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st February 2010

Contents

Artists

Ensemble Mare Nostrum

Conductor

Andrea de Carlo

Artists

Ensemble Mare Nostrum

Conductor

Andrea de Carlo

About

Whilst Italian composers had taken up the ‘modern’ form of the sonata and adapted it to the violin at the beginning of the 17th century, French composers remained faithful to the principles of polyphonic music with their fantaisies that were still intended for ensembles of viols; the role of the violin in France at that time was still limited to providing music for dancing. Such knowledge of polyphony was demanded not only from composers of vocal music but also from organists, one of whom was Louis Couperin and who was also dessus de viole de la chambre du Roi.

Our recording comes to a fitting conclusion with the last French work to be written for ensemble of viols: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Concert à quatre parties de violes.

Track Listing:
1. Fantaisie de violes à 5
2. Cinq Fantaisies sur "Une jeune fillette" à 3, à 3, à 4, à 4, à 5
3. Troisième Fantaisie à 5 ad imitationem Moduli Benedicta est coelorum Regina
4. Pavane première, Gaillarde première, Bransles 3 et 1 à 4
5. Première Fantaisie à 4
6. Seconde Fantaisie à 4
7. Troisième Fantaisie à 4
8. Allemanda gravis à 4
9. Fugue cinquième et Caprice à 4
10. Simphonie à 3
11. Fantaisie à 4
12. Simphonie à 4
13. Concert à quatre parties de violes: I. Prélude
14. Concert à quatre parties de violes: II. Autre Prélude
15. Concert à quatre parties de violes: III. Sarabande
16. Concert à quatre parties de violes: IV. Gigue angloise
17. Concert à quatre parties de violes: V. Gigue françoise
18. Concert à quatre parties de violes: VI. Passecaille
19. Fantaisies à 5

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