Composer: Marin Marais, Robert de Visée, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau
Performer: Johanna Rose, Josep María Martí Duran, Javier Núñez
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Rubicon
Release: 2017
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Marais:
01. Pièces de viole, Livre V: XVI. Prélude en Harpègement
Pièces de viole, Livre III
02. I. Prélude
03. II. Gavotte
04. III. Grand Ballett
05. Visée: Passacaille
Marais: Suite in a Foreign Style (Suitte d’un Goût Etranger)
06. No. 61. Fête Champêtre
07. No. 63. Rondeau Le Bijou
08. No. 64. Le Tourbillon
09. Couperin: Suite 1, for viola da gamba & continuo (Pièces de viole): Chaconne ou Passacaille
Marais:
Suite in a Foreign Style (Suitte d’un Goût Etranger)
10. No. 80. L’Árabesque
11. No. 81. Allemande La Superbe
12. No. 82. La Reveuse
13. Cloches on Carillon
14. Rameau: La Marais in D major
Marais:
Suite in a Foreign Style (Suitte d’un Goût Etranger)
15. No. 83. Marche
16. No. 87. Le Badinage
17. Pièces de viole, Livre V: XXXI. Chaconne
Johanna Rose’s debut album of CPE Bach Viola da Gamba sonatas was met with critical acclaim, with Gramophone magazine calling it “a very lovely thing” and going on to say, “Her tone itself is glorious too: rich and dark, with an exceptionally attractive grainy edge to it.”
For her second album she turns her attention to probably the greatest composer for the instrument, Marin Marais, and programmes his music alongside works by two great contemporaries, Rameau, Couperin and the lesser known de Visée.
This is a beautiful album that will appeal to da gamba fans as well as lovers of baroque music in general.