Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair
Performer: Le Concert Universel, Juliette Roumailhac, Stephanie de Failly, Silvia de Maria, Brice Sailly
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Claves
Release: 2021
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Scylla et Glaucus
01. Gigue
02. Passepied
5ème Sonate pour violon et basse continue en la mineur (4ème livre) Op. 9 No. 5
03. I. Andante
04. II. Allegro assai
05. III. Adagio
06. IV. Allegro ma non troppo
Scylla et Glaucus
07. 2ème Air
3ème sonate pour violon et basse continue en ré majeur (4ème livre) Op. 9 No. 3
08. I. Un poco andante
09. II. Allegro
10. III. Sarabande
11. IV. Tambourin
Scylla et Glaucus
12. Musette
13. 1er Air en rondeau
14. Marche des Bergers et des Silvains
Ouverture pour deux violons et basse continue en la majeur, Op. 13 No. 3
15. I. Grave-Allegro
16. II. Largo
17. III. Allegro assai
Scylla et Glaucus
18. Forlane
19. 2ème Air, gay
20. 3ème Air, vite
A brilliant dancer before becoming “famous throughout Europe for his learned and elaborate sonatas, and for the elegance of his performance on the violin”, Jean-Marie Leclair is far more than the sum of his talents. His music is woven with the multiple threads of his life, carrying within it all the facets of his technical and musical explorations, his travels, his impressions, which have moulded man as much as musician.
“You should have seen him, at sixty-seven years of age, performing with astonishing gusto, communicating his energy to the whole orchestra, and […] savouring the pleasure of being admired, with that modest and pure joy that so befits a young man being praised for the first time”.
It is the man, of “noble simplicity”, alert and passionate to the end of his life, as much as the musician-dancer, fertile creator of virtuoso elegance, that this recording wishes to portray.
His music, too rarely played, brings together the brightness of Italy, French taste without the rigidity of etiquette, love of the violin, of sound, and virtuosity that always allows poetry and beauty to take precedence.