Julia Karpeta - Marais & Forqueray: Chamber Works (2019) [Hi-Res]

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01. Pièces de viole, Book 5 (Excerpts): No. 1, Prélude le Soligni
02. Pièces de viole, Book 5 (Excerpts): No. 2, Allemande la facile
03. Pièces de viole, Book 5 (Excerpts): No. 3, Sarabande
04. Pièces de viole, Book 5 (Excerpts): No. 4, La mariée
05. Pièces de viole, Book 5 (Excerpts): No. 7, Minuet & Double
06. Pièces de viole, Book 5 (Excerpts): No. 15, Rondeau moitié pincé
07. Pieces de viole, Suite No. 1 in D Minor: VI. La couperin (Arr. for Viola da gamba, Theorbo & Harpsichord)
08. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 40, Prélude
09. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 41, Fantaisie
10. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 42, Allemande
11. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 43, Courante
12. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 44, Sarabande
13. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 46, Gigue
14. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 54, Rondeau
15. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 55, Plainte
16. Pièces de viole, Book 3 (Excerpts): No. 56, Chaconne
17. Pieces de viole, Suite No. 2 in G Major: IV. La leclair
18. Pièces de viole, Book 4 (Excerpts): No. 23, Prélude
19. Pièces de viole, Book 4 (Excerpts): No. 25, Gavotte
20. Pièces de viole, Book 4 (Excerpts): No. 27, Caprice
21. Pièces de viole, Book 4 (Excerpts): No. 28, Musette I-No. 29, Musette II
22. Pièces de viole, Book 4 (Excerpts): No. 30, La sautillante
23. Pieces de viole, Suite No. 2 in G Major: V. Chaconne. La buisson (Arr. for Viola da gamba & Theorbo)


Marin Marais studied viola da gamba with Sainte-Colombe himself and learned the secrets of composition under Lully. Marais works included in this recording are taken from three different collections. In each case, according to the performance practice of that time, musicians themselves decided about the final sound shape by choosing the parts and line-up of the continuo. Chronologically the oldest work among these included in the recording is the Suite in D major, chosen from the third volume of Pieces de viole (1711). The choice of parts suggested by the performers is also an expression of their tribute to tradition the central position is taken by four dances supplemented by a slow prelude, which is figured slightly in the Italian style of Fantaisie, nostalgic Plainte, airy Rondeau and elaborate Chaconne. Musicians interpreted the Suite in A minor from the fourth volume of Pieces de viole (1717) in a different way and highlighted its parts with a light and rustical character a playful Gavotte and Muzettes are here as well as a lively miniature with a suggestive title La Sautillante, and the whole is opened with the Prelude, expressive and full of dissonant harmonies. On the other hand, the Suite in A minor from the fifth volume of Pieces de viole (1725) contains movements which are pathetic and melancholic at the same time. The work is opened with a celebratory Prelude, full of rhetorical leaps and numerous dissonances, which brings to mind operatic recit or solemn, funerary tombeau. The short and airy Allemande la Facile (easy), that appears later, leads to a Sarabande characterized by a noble pathos. The monumental and brooding mood reappears in the miniature La Mariee in a pair of minuets as well as in the Rondeau, which closes the work. A peculiar counterpoint to subtle works of Marais is provided by three miniatures by Forqueray presented on the album. The first piece of the recorded ones the miniature La Couperin is a musical portrait of one of the members of the famous musical family.

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