Composer: Colin Charpentier, Nicolas Chédeville, Domenico Scarlatti
Performer: Amanda Babington, Claire Babington, David Smith
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deux-Elles
Catalogue: DXL1188
Release: 2022
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Chédeville: Les Deffis
01. I. L’Italienne
02. II. Les Plaisirs Militaire
03. III. Menuet
04. IV. Les tendres fleurettes
05. V. Le Chinois
06. VI. Les Tourbillons
07. Borjon de Scellery: Branle de Normandie
Chédeville: Sonatille Galant, No. 6
08. I. Lentement
09. II. Allemande
10. III. Ariette
11. IV. Gayement
Hotteterre: Pièces pour la Muzette
12. I. Marche des Bergers
13. II. Bourée
14. III. Sarabande
15. IV. Menuet
16. V. Muzette
17. VI. Branle
18. VII. Rondeau Champêtre
Charpentier: Premier Amusement
19. I. Ouverture – Loure
20. II. Gavotte
anon.: Les Amusements de Chambre, Suite No. 4
21. I. Rondeau
22. II. Air gay
23. III. Un peu gay
24. IV. Musette
25. V. Gay
26. VI. Gratieusement
27. VII. Menuet
28. VIII. Air gay
29. IX. Tembourin
Scarlatti: Sonates Pour Les Clavecins, Op. 4 No. 6
30. I. Adagio
31. II. Allegro
32. III. Pastorale
33. IV. Allegro
anon.: Les Amusements de Chambre, Suite No. 4
34. X. Pot poury
Amanda Babington’s debut solo album introduces you to the intriguing world of musette, a delicate French bagpipe whose fortunes rose and fell with French aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Works on the disc range from rustic dances to French suites and Italianate sonatas. The disc features three of the most prominent exponents of the musette, brothers Esprit- Philippe and Nicolas Chédeville and their relative Jacques Hotteterre, as well as an extract from the only known work composed by the elusive musette virtuoso Colin Charpentier. Amanda’s insightful interpretation is underpinned by her research into the instrument and its repertoire and all the works on this disc are recorded here for the first time.
Amanda Babington is a musette player, baroque violinist and recorder player. She is Artistic Director of Baroque In The North and has played and recorded with many of the leading British and European period-instrument ensembles, as well as with chamber ensembles AB24, Four’s Company and Aberdeen Early Music Collective. A Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, Amanda has published various articles on G. F. Handel, and is regularly invited to give lectures at Göttingen International Handel-Festival. Her edition of Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum and Dettingen Anthem for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe was published by Bärenreiter in 2016. More recently, however, her research has focused on French Baroque music pertaining to the musette, and she is currently researching musette repertoire at the Stuart court in Rome, c. 1733-1744.