Performer: Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford, Lea Desandre, Marc Mauillon, Myriam Rignol
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Erato
Release: 2020
Size: 1.29 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
François Couperin
01. Second Livre de pièces de clavecin, Sixième Ordre: Les baricades mïstérieuses
Robert de Visée
Pièces de théorbe et de luth, Suite No. 7 en ré mineur
02. I. Allemande “La Royale”
03. II. Courante I
04. III. Sarabande
05. IV. Gavotte
06. V. Chaconne
07. VI. Mascarade, rondeau
Michel Lambert
08. Mes jours s’en vont finir
Marin Marais
09. Pièces de viole, Livre II, Suite No. 3 en ré majeur: Les voix humaines
François Couperin
10. L’Art de toucher le clavecin: Premier Prélude
11. Second Livre de pièces de clavecin, Septième Ordre: I. La Ménetou. Rondeau, gracieusement, sans lenteur
Marin Marais
12. Pièces de viole, Livre IV, Suite d’un goût étranger: La Rêveuse
François Couperin
13. Troisième Livre de pièces de clavecin, Quinzième Ordre: II. Le Dodo ou L’Amour au berceau. Rondeau, sur le mouvement des berçeuses
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
14. Sans frayeur dans ce bois, H. 467
Jean-Henry d’Anglebert
Suite No. 3 en ré mineur
15. I. Prélude
16. VI. Sarabande Grave. Lentement
Antoine Forqueray
Pèces de viole, Suite No. 1 en ré mineur
17. V. La Portugaise. Marqué et d’aplomb
18. VI. La Sylva. Très tendrement
19. VII. Jupiter. Modérément
Jean-Philippe Rameau
20. Les Fêtes d’Hébé, Act I: “Je vous revois” (Le Ruisseau, La Naïade)
Jean Rondeau: “Both of us have grown up with this music from the cradle of our earliest infancy; […] It is music that allowed us to become what we are, while at the same time encouraging us to question things constantly. […] Now, playing the music – because, as we all know, we play rather than make music – has become a part that each of us plays, played here as a double act. Each one for himself, with his instrument as a crucible, and at the same time each of us for the other, since after all we are engaged in a performance. We don’t know how to play alone. This is the paradox of the game of music: a cross between extremely precise rules for how to play – how to read this cryptic language we spend our life deciphering, like hieroglyphs – and the magic to which it leads us – its at once organic and dreamlike dimension. This is where we find our shared expression: in a shared ordeal, we still don’t fully understand. […] Our playing goes far beyond dialogue: for us, it is not about responding to each other so much as it is about questioning and inviting our listeners to join us in this exploration with no answer or resolution. […] So we brood over this music, we play it endlessly, and we play endlessly. That is precisely what we do in this programme composed almost exclusively of rondos (refrain–verse–refrain–verse), and pieces with repeats in binary form.”