Composer: Antoine Boesset, Jean de Cambefort, Henry Grénerin
Performer: Bruno Helstroffer, Chantal Santon Jeffery
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1007
Release: 2023
Size: 1.03 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Grénerin: Suite in A minor
01. I. Prélude en milaré tierce mineure
02. II. Allemande
03. III. Courante
04. IV. Sarabande
05. V. Gigue
06. VI. Menuet
07. VII. Bourrée
Grénerin: Suite in D major
08. I. Prélude en d.la ré sol par b.carre tierce maieure
09. II. Allemande en de la re sol
10. III. Courante
11. IV. Passacaille
12. V. Sarabande
13. VI. Gigue
14. VII. Menuet
15. Boesset: Je meurs sans mourir
Grénerin: Suite in G minor
16. I. Allemande en g.ré.sol ut tierce mineure
17. II. Courante
18. III. Sarabande
19. IV. Gigue à la manière angloise
20. V. Menuet
21. VI. Passacaille
Cambefort: Ballet Royalle de la Nuict
22. Pt. 3: Récit de la Lune
Grénerin: Suite in D minor
23. I. Prélude en de la ré sol tierce mineure
24. II. Allemande
25. III. Sarabande
26. IV. Courante
27. V. Sarabande
28. VI. Gigue aymable
29. Grénerin: Passacaille en c sol ut fa
It was in the second half of the sixteenth century that the guitar became fashionable in France: it was the instrument of the people, whereas the lute was associated with the intellectuals and the nobility. Henry Grenerin became a page (choirboy) in the Musique du Roi in 1641 and went on to invent a new way of playing the instrument and offer it music full of ‘freedom, mystery and ardour’, says Bruno Helstroffer. In the very first recording devoted to Grenerin’s music, Bruno revives this unjustly forgotten composer and makes the most of his long experience as both Baroque musician and exponent of today’s music. He became fascinated by this seventeenth-century composer, and his investigations led him to the Left Bank of the Seine, opposite the Louvre Palace, where Henry’s grandfather was a fisherman, hence the punning title L’ame-son [French hamecon = ‘fish-hook’, ame-son = ‘soul of sound’]. A saga that has also generated a book and a stage show about Grenerin – the first in the line of ‘guitar heroes’ that was to lead to Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix!