Metronome: METCD1072
Robert de Visee - Pieces de Theorbe
Visee: Pieces de Theorbe in D minor
Visee: Pieces de Theorbe in G major
Visee: Arrangements for theorbo of music by Jean Baptiste Lully
Visee: Pieces de Theorbe in A minor
Our Price: £13.50 (£11.49 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Artist(s): Fred Jacobs (french theorbo)
Release Date: 29th June 2008
More Details on Robert de Visee - Pieces de Theorbe
Metronome Recordings announces the release of the theorbo music of baroque French composer Robert de Visée performed by the Dutch lutenist Fred Jacobs.
This new recording of baroque French theorbo music from Louis XIV’s court has been several years in the making. It provides us with the opportunity of hearing the work of de Visée, a composer well known to guitarists and lutenists alike as the most important French baroque composer for plucked instruments, on an instrument very similar to the one he played for the Louis XIV court.
To re-create the subtle sound world of the French theorbo, no original large theorbo is known to have survived but there is considerable iconographic evidence from which Michael Lowe has re-created the instrument used here.
Track Listing:
Pièces de Théorbe in D minor
1 Prélude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Gigue
6 Gavotte
7 Menuet
8 Passacaille
Pièces de Théorbe in G major
9 Prélude
10 Allemande
11 La Villeroy, Courante
12 Menuet
13 Gavotte en rondeau
14 Le Rémouleur, Gigue
15 La Muzette, Rondeau
Arrangements for theorbo of music by Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
16 Entrée d’Apollon from Le Triomphe de l’Amour, 1681
17 Les Sourdines from Armide, 1686
18 Assez des pleurs from Bellérophon, 1679
19 Les Echos from Atys, 1676
Pièces de Théorbe in A minor
20 Prélude
21 La Royalle, Allemande
22 Courante
23 Sarabande
24 Gavotte
25 La Mascarade, Rondeau
26 Les Folies d’Espagne
27 La Plainte ou Tombeau de Mesdemoiselles de Visee, Allemande de Mr. Leur Pere
This new recording of baroque French theorbo music from Louis XIV’s court has been several years in the making. It provides us with the opportunity of hearing the work of de Visée, a composer well known to guitarists and lutenists alike as the most important French baroque composer for plucked instruments, on an instrument very similar to the one he played for the Louis XIV court.
To re-create the subtle sound world of the French theorbo, no original large theorbo is known to have survived but there is considerable iconographic evidence from which Michael Lowe has re-created the instrument used here.
Track Listing:
Pièces de Théorbe in D minor
1 Prélude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Gigue
6 Gavotte
7 Menuet
8 Passacaille
Pièces de Théorbe in G major
9 Prélude
10 Allemande
11 La Villeroy, Courante
12 Menuet
13 Gavotte en rondeau
14 Le Rémouleur, Gigue
15 La Muzette, Rondeau
Arrangements for theorbo of music by Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
16 Entrée d’Apollon from Le Triomphe de l’Amour, 1681
17 Les Sourdines from Armide, 1686
18 Assez des pleurs from Bellérophon, 1679
19 Les Echos from Atys, 1676
Pièces de Théorbe in A minor
20 Prélude
21 La Royalle, Allemande
22 Courante
23 Sarabande
24 Gavotte
25 La Mascarade, Rondeau
26 Les Folies d’Espagne
27 La Plainte ou Tombeau de Mesdemoiselles de Visee, Allemande de Mr. Leur Pere
