Gordon Ferries - Les Plaisirs Les Plus Charmants: Works for French Baroque Guitar (2003)

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Title: Les Plaisirs Les Plus Charmants: Works for French Baroque Guitar
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Delphian
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:11:54
Total Size: 317 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. Prelud (00:01:15)
02. Chiacona in C Major (00:02:16)
03. Suite In C Major: Prélude (00:00:47)
04. Suite In C Major: Allemande (00:02:18)
05. Suite In C Major: Courante (00:01:43)
06. Suite In C Major: Sarabande (00:01:12)
07. Suite In C Major: Gigue a la maniere engloise (00:01:05)
08. Suite In C Major: Gavotte (00:01:00)
09. Suite In C Major: Menuet (00:00:41)
10. Suite In C Major: Autre menuet (00:01:09)
11. Suite in D Major: Prélude (00:01:29)
12. Suite in D Major: Allemande (00:01:54)
13. Suite in D Major: Courante (00:01:18)
14. Suite in D Major: Passacaille (00:02:22)
15. Suite in D Major: Sarabande (00:03:26)
16. Suite in D Major: Gigue (00:01:04)
17. Suite in D Major: Menuet (00:01:16)
18. Suite in G Minor: Prélude d'accords chromatiques (00:00:44)
19. Suite in G Minor: Allemande (00:01:52)
20. Suite in G Minor: Sarabande (00:01:56)
21. Suite in G Minor: Gigue (00:01:21)
22. Suite in G Minor: Passacaille (00:01:38)
23. Caprice de chacone (00:02:40)
24. Suite in A Minor: Prélude (00:00:38)
25. Suite in A Minor: Allemande (00:03:42)
26. Suite in A Minor: Courante (00:02:43)
27. Suite in A Minor: Sarabande (00:02:24)
28. Suite in A Minor: Gigue (00:01:53)
29. Suite in A Minor: Passacaille (00:01:54)
30. Masquerade (00:01:20)
31. Air (00:01:04)
32. Musete (00:01:37)
33. Entrée d'Isis (00:01:25)
34. Entrée d'Apollon (00:02:36)
35. Sœur Monique (00:03:11)
36. Suite in G Minor: I. Prélude (00:01:05)
37. Suite in G Minor: II. Sarabande (00:01:35)
38. Suite in G Minor: III. Allemande (00:02:47)
39. Suite in G Minor: IV. Sarabande > (00:02:07)
40. Suite in G Minor: V. Courante (00:00:50)
41. Suite in G Minor: VI. Sarabande (II) (00:02:37)

Total length: 01:11:54
Label: Delphian Records

Performers:
Gordon Ferries (baroque guitars)

Composers:
Campra, Andre (1660-1744)
Carré, Antoine (fl.17th century)
Corbetta, Francesco (c.1615-81)
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
Grénerin, Henry (c.1625-1700)
Grénerin, Rémy (c.1668-c.1748)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-87)
Marais, Marin (1656–1728)
Médard, Rémy (fl.17th century)
Visée, Robert de (c.1655-c.1732)

From its earliest beginnings, the five-course Baroque guitar was associated – for better or worse – with dance music, becoming the sensuous younger cousin of the lute or vihuela. In this mélange of music from seventeenth-century France, some of it recorded for the first time, and performed on baroque guitars including an original historic instrument from the Edinburgh University

Collection of Historic Instruments, Gordon Ferries weaves a tapestry of sound that is at once elegant, earthy, and utterly timeless.