SACDs - Couperin, F

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Couperin, F: Pieces de Viole

Couperin, F: Pieces de Viole

1728. with figured bass by Mr F.C.


Première suite: Prélude, Allemande légère, Courante, Sarabande grave, Gavotte, Gigue, Passacaille ou Chaconne

Deuxième suite: Prélude, Fuguéte, Pompe funèbre, La Chemise blanche


Jordi Savall (bass viol 7-string, anon, French, XVII century), Ton Koopman (harpsichord, Gilbert des Ruisseaux, end XVII century) & Ariane Maurette (bass viol Barak Norman, London 1697)

The first album made by Jordi Savall for the Astrée label!

After Mr Marin Marais and Sainte Colombe, Jordi Savall presents another summit of music for viola da gamba in his Heritage collection. This 1975 disc confirmed Couperin as a master, if proof were needed, and of his affinitities with the masters of French music.

This remastered high definition multi-channel SACD and very informative booklet complete this reissue of a must-have of the Savall oeuvre.

“Although still at the beginning of his career as a viol player, Savall, serenely supported by Ton Koopman, plays with consummate mastery of Couperin's style. He caresses the notes, and shapes and moulds the phrases, adding just the right amount of silence, allowing the music to breathe. However, some tempi now seems a little slow.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2013

“Savall and co play with a warmth, a passion and a sense of freedom unsurpassed since.” Sunday Times, 16th December 2012

GGramophone Magazine

Re-issue of the Month - April 2013

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Couperin, F: Concerts 1-4 (Les Concerts Royaux)

Couperin, F: Concerts 1-4 (Les Concerts Royaux)


“…Couperin listed a wide range of options - violin, flute, oboe, viol and bassoon - while he himself played harpsichord, presumably expanding its role to that of chordal continuo. …for a month of Sundays, Jordi Savall's colourful options are a delight. The final Concert offers a kaleidoscope of colours, all the more varied by continuo of harpsichord and theorbo/guitar and ending with a wonderfully spirited 'Forlane en rondeau'.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2005 ****

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Tous les matins du monde

Tous les matins du monde

Original soundtrack


Couperin, F:

Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres à 2 voix

Lully:

Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs

Marais, M:

Improvisations sur les folies d'Espagne

La Rêveuse

L'Arabesque

Le Badinage

Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Muzettes I-II

Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris

Sainte Colombe the elder:

Prélude pour Mr. Vauquelin

Gavotte du Tendre

Une jeune fillette

Les Pleurs

Concert à deux violes 'Le Retour'

Fantaisie en Mi mineur


Jordi Savall (bass viol); Montserrat Figueras, Maria-Cristina Kiehr (sopranos), Fabio Biondi (violin); Christophe Coin, Jérôme Hantaï (viols), Rolf Lislevand (théorbe); Pierre Hantaï (clavecin)

Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

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The Nightingale and the Butterfly

The Nightingale and the Butterfly


Couperin, F:

Pièces de clavecin III: Ordre 14ème in D major: Le rossignol-en-amour

Pièces de clavecin III: Ordre 14ème in D major: Le rossignol-vainqueur

Dieupart:

Recorder Suite No.1 in A major

Recorder Suite No.6 in F minor

Hervelois:

Suite in G major

Philidor, A:

Sonata in D minor

Visée:

Passacaille

(ms Vaudry de Saizenay: late 17th century)

Suite in D minor

(ms Vaudry de Saizenay: late 17th century)


Pamela Thorby (recorders) & Elizabeth Kenny (archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar)

"Pamela Thorby's sensual recorder playing, complete with improvised flourishes and infinitely flexible dynamic shadings, is out of the top drawer." Music Week

"A wonderful artist at her very best: relaxed, stylish, unpredictable and distinctive of tone." Independent on Sunday

Following her successful collaborations with Richard Egarr and Andrew Lawrence-King world-famous recorder player Pamela Thorby teams up with renowned lutenist Elizabeth Kenny for her fourth solo album on Linn, ‘The Nightingale and the Butterfly’, a sparkling exploration of French Baroque music.

‘The Nightingale and the Butterfly’ presents a fine example of Pamela Thorby’s award-winning trademark sound: soaring and graceful melodies played impeccably.

Elizabeth Kenny weaves the lute melodies seamlessly amongst Pamela’s recorders – the two players complementing each other effortlessly.

Thorby and Kenny, both specialists in Baroque repertoire, give a unique interpretation of these appealing works whilst uncovering the beauty of some lesser-known gems.

Pamela Thorby has established herself as one of the world’s leading recorder players. She is most regularly heard on Karl Jenkins’ fabulous Adiemus recordings making her possibly one of the most listened to recorder players in the world.

Pamela was a founding member of the multi award-winning Palladian Ensemble achieving international success with ten critically acclaimed albums.

Pamela has appeared many times as a soloist at major UK festivals and venues including Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.

Elizabeth Kenny, one of the UK’s foremost lute players, performs regularly with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort and Les Art Florissants.

“Pamela Thorby's soft, sweet, natural tone is ideally suited to the whimsical delicacies of d'Hervelois, Philidor and Dieupart...The birds and butterflies of French Baroque music are artful accomplices to Eros and Morpheus, and genial companions for summer evenings.” The Independent, 27th June 2010

“This is very much a duo recital. Kenny provides delightful theorbo solos by the 17th-century virtuoso Robert de Visée as well as enchanting accompaniments to Thorby's recorder-playing...[Thorby] produces a consistently bright, remarkably unmannered tone” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010

“Virtuoso playing and scholarly research come together in this disc of French Baroque works...Thorby's eclectic experience in Baroque, jazz and folk music is everywhere apparent in these performances, with combination of technical precision and improvisatory flair...a disc full of delights and surprises” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 *****

“Kenny provides Thorby with a firm yet subtly nuanced harmonic and rhythmic support, her clean attack on each leading note balancing the louder sound of the recorder. Thorby plays with her customary vigour and agility, with generous and judiciously applied ornamentation.” International Record Review, January 2011

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Linn - CKD341

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Trumpet Masque

Trumpet Masque


Arauxo:

Tiento de medio registro, No. 36

Biber:

Fidicinium sacro-profanum: Sonata VIII

Böhm, G:

Choral Prelude: Vater unser in Himmelreich

Buxtehude:

Chorale Prelude BuxWV 184 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'

Cabanilles:

Tiento XVII de 'Pange lingua' punt alt

Couperin, F:

Cromhorne en Taille

Dowland:

When the poore Criple (A Pilgrimes Solace)

Gabrieli, G:

Canzon II

Holborne:

Dovehouse Pavan & Galliard

Lully:

Scocca pur

Marchand, L:

Grand Dialogue in C major

Monteverdi:

Laudate Dominum from Selva morale e spirituale

Muffat, Georg:

Sonata No. 5 in G Major

Purcell:

Fantazia 4 in G minor, Z. 735

Schütz:

Der Herr ist gross, SWV 286

Sweelinck:

Onder een linde groen, SwWV 325


Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)

“Trumpet Masque” sees renowned trumpeter Jonathan Freeman-Attwood explore his passion for expanding the instrument’s limited chamber repertoire by imaginatively arranging Baroque works previously scored for alternative forces.

In “Trumpet Masque”, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Daniel-Ben Pienaar take a radical new look at the 17th century with a compelling vision of repertoire historically far-removed from the traditional contexts of both trumpet and piano.

Through wonderfully vibrant programming and arrangements, this invigorating and warm-hearted chamber duo present music from Dowland to Purcell in an energetic, innovative and 21st century fashion.

The aim of this recording is to open our ears to a period of unequalled variety, colour, regional diversity and expressive freedom: the Venetian world of Gabrieli, the great pre-Bach North German lineage of Buxtehude, Jacobean dances and songs and the great G major sonata from Muffat’s ‘Armonico Tributo’ with its virtuoso and valedictory passacaglia, which appropriately ends the disc.

“Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's playing is notable for the beauty and freedom of line of his lyrical phrasing, while the bravura is exhilarating. Daniel-Ben Pienaar's accompaniments are boldly supportive and well in the picture.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008

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Linn - CKD310

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