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Tombeau pour Mr de Ste Colombe           | Zig Zag Territoires ZZT080302

Tombeau pour Mr de Ste Colombe

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Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Cat No: ZZT080302

Barcode: 3760009291669

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 12th May 2008

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Contents

Works

Sainte-Colombe
Prelude (du manuscrit de Tournus)

Sainte-Colombe
Concert a deux violes egales : "Le retrouve"

Forqueray
La Laborde

Forqueray
La Rameau

Forqueray
La Leclair

Forqueray
La Forqueray

Forqueray
La Couperin

D Gautier
Tombeau de Gautier

E Gautier
Les Larmes de Boesset, Courrante

Rameau
La Rameau

Rameau
La Forqueray

Marais
Tombeau pour Mr. De Ste Colombe

Marais
Tombeau pour Mr Lully

Marais
La Marianne

Artists

Marianne Muller
Ensemble Spirale

Works

Sainte-Colombe
Prelude (du manuscrit de Tournus)

Sainte-Colombe
Concert a deux violes egales : "Le retrouve"

Forqueray
La Laborde

Forqueray
La Rameau

Forqueray
La Leclair

Forqueray
La Forqueray

Forqueray
La Couperin

D Gautier
Tombeau de Gautier

E Gautier
Les Larmes de Boesset, Courrante

Rameau
La Rameau

Rameau
La Forqueray

Marais
Tombeau pour Mr. De Ste Colombe

Marais
Tombeau pour Mr Lully

Marais
La Marianne

Artists

Marianne Muller
Ensemble Spirale

About

This disc presents the music of a group of French musicians who throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries painted each other’s portraits, or their self-portraits, generally with considerable wit.

We know that they were familiar with each other, and many of them are described in works bearing their names, or in tributes such as tombeaux. Thus Rameau, in his Pièces de clavecin en concerts, made fun of himself, and then offered his personal vision of Marin Marais and Forqueray.

Forqueray, for his part, depicts himself with a tone of authority that we recognise from his music. After this, in a lighter vein, he has fun imagining how to describe Leclair or Couperin. Marais, assuming an official air with his Tombeau pour Mr de Lulli, renders a magnificent homage to this dominant personality of his time; yet he also relates with intense inwardness how music was transmitted to him by his master Sainte-Colombe and what kind of man the latter was.

These pieces do not form suites of dances, so typically French, but rather a sort of guided tour through a teeming variety of timbres, thanks to instruments as different as the guitar, the harpsichord and the theorbo which, with the second bass viol, make up a rich continuo group, light when necessary, lively and colourful.

Ensemble Spirale and Marianne Muller offer a tour of a genuine little “museum of sonorities” which they visit with both great respect and smiles of complicity at the inventive way in which all these great musicians contrived to describe each other.

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