Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Thomas Boysen, Markus Hünninger - Couperin: Pieces de violes (2013) [Hi-Res]

• Title: Couperin: Pieces de violes
  
• Year Of Release: 2013
  
• Label: Glossa
  
• Genre: Classical Harpsichord
  
• Quality: flac 24bits - 88.2kHz +Booklet
  
• Total Time: 00:59:47
  
• Total Size: 1.04 gb
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Tracklist

01. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: I. Prelude
02. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: II. Allemande legere
03. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: III. Courante
04. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: IV. Sarabande grave
05. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: V. Gavotte
06. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: VI. Gigue
07. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 1 in E Minor: VII. Passacaille ou Chaconne
08. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 12 in A Major: I. Pointe-coule
09. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 12 in A Major: II. Badinage
10. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 12 in A Major: III. Lentement, et patetiquement
11. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 12 in A Major: IV. Air: Gracieusement, et legerement
12. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 2 in A Major: I. Prelude
13. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 2 in A Major: II. Fuguete
14. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 2 in A Major: III. Pompe funebre
15. Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree: Suite No. 2 in A Major: IV. La Chemise blanche
16. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 13 in G Major: I. Vivement
17. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 13 in G Major: II. Air
18. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 13 in G Major: III. Sarabande
19. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 13 in G Major: IV. Chaconne legere
20. Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 10 in A Minor: III. Plainte pour les Violes: Lentement et douloureusement

The confidential, almost secretive, musical world of François Couperin is known through the innumerable emotional connections made in his harpsichord works, but he was also able to produce the same sensations when writing for the viola da gamba. Paolo Pandolfo has brought together on one new album on Glossa these works of Couperin’s full maturity, demonstrating the composer’s spiritual and mischievous tendencies in equal measure (as well as his own mastery of the subtleties of the gamba).

As well as the Plainte from the Tenth Concert Royal, there are two full Concerts from the collection entitled Les Goûts Réunis which ask for two violas da gamba. These are included alongside what may have been Couperin’s final works, the two sets of the Pièces de violes which, being supplied with a figured bass, call upon for the involvement of other instruments such as theorbo and harpsichord.

Considered by the booklet essay writer, Philippe Beaussant, to be ranked as one of Couperin’s masterpieces, the second Suite (which lay undiscovered for almost 250 years) contains an astonishing pair of pieces called Pompe funèbre (Couperin’s musical testament?) and La Chemise blanche.

Paolo Pandolfo is joined in this recording – made in the French village of Rasteau – by a second gamba player in Amélie Chemin, as well as by frequent collaborators from recent years in Thomas Boysen (theorbo, Baroque guitar) and Markus Hünninger (harpsichord).

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