Marais, Forqueray, Mouton - Pièces de caractère

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 If you thought the viola da gamba and lute weren’t to your taste, you can’t have heard this disc. From the opening track, you are treated to a succession of strongly characterised, superbly executed performances by Vittorio Ghielmi and Luca Pianca. (Can there only be two of them playing on this disc?) No mincing or simpering here, not even in Marais’s ‘Minaudière’: this is passionate, virile playing. Forqueray’s ‘Mandoline’ entices and ‘La portugaise’ struts. Marais’s percussive ‘Tact’, a tour de force for the left hand, amazes and delights, while his ‘Cloches’ triumph over the slashing hellish groans from below. Dollé’s sinuous ‘Amusements’ and the delicately wrought mesh of Roland Marais’ ‘Noeud d’Amour’ mesmerise the listener. But best of all are the deliciously treacly, deeply felt ‘Plaintes’ of Marais and Caix d’Hervelois.

As a viol player, Ghielmi has it all: technique, taste and imagination. His range of bow strokes, command of ornamentation and control of dramatic tension are deeply satisfying. His choice of accompanist is truly inspired. Along with what can only be described as cleverly contrived contreparties, Luca Pianca brings to the music a rich and colourful palette of instrumental effects, which he deploys imaginatively and with discrimination. His solos deservedly attract attention: Mouton’s ‘Resveur’ is shapely and resonant, his ‘Belle Piedmontoise’ frothy. Visée’s Ouverture stands up well to its Lullian counterparts and his ‘Mascarade’ is elegantly parried. Enjoy!

 

contents:

Marin Marais 1656 - 1728
1. La Minaudière - Pièces de viole, Quatrième Livre, Paris, 1717
2. Le Tact - Pièces de viole, Cinquième Livre, Paris, 1725
Antoine Forqueray 1671/72 - 1745
3. La Mandoline - Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë, Paris, 1747
Charles Mouton 1626 - c.1710
4. Le Resveur - Second livre de pièces de luth sur differents modes, Paris, 1699
Louis Caix d'Hervelois c.1680 - c.1760
5. Plainte - Premier livre de pièces de viole, Paris s.d.1710
Antoine Forqueray
6. La Portugaise - Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë, Paris, 1747
Roland Marais, fils de Marin Marais 1680
7. Le Noeud d'Amour
8. Les Forgerons - Deuxième livre de pièces de viole avec la basse chiffrée en partition, Paris, 1738
Robert de Visée c.1650 - 1725
9. Allemande, dite "la Conversation" - Pièces de théorbe et de luth, Paris, 1714
Charles Dollé mort vers 1755
10. Les Amusements - Pièces de viole, Paris s.d., c.1737
Charles Mouton
11. La Belle Piedmontoise - Premier livre de pièces de luth sur differents modes, Paris, 1699
Marin Marais
12. La Saillie du Café - Pièces de viole, Troisième Livre, Paris, 1711
13. Plainte - Pièces de viole, Troisième Livre, Paris, 1711
Robert de Visée
14. Ouverture de la Grotte de Versailles - Manuscrit Vaudry de Saizenay
15. Mascarade - Pièces de théorbe et de luth, Paris, 1714
Marin Marais
16. Cloches ou carillon - Pièces de viole, Deuxième Livre, Paris, 1701
Robert de Visée
17. Musette en rondeau - Pièces de théorbe et de luth, Paris, 1714
Antoine Forqueray
18. Bransle - Pièce manuscrite inédite
Charles Mouton
19. Le Beau Danseur - Second livre de pièces de luth sur differents modes, Paris, 1699
Louis Caix d'Hervelois
20. La Diligence - Premier livre de pièces de viole, Paris s.d.1710

Vittorio Ghielmi
(Bass Viola da gamba - Michel Colichon, Paris - 1688)
Luca Pianca
(Lute - F. Gabrielli, Milan - 1999)
(Archlute - Luc Breton, Vaux/Morges - 1991)

The 1999 Gabrielli lute is a copy of one by Monzino from 1792.
The 1991 Breton archlute was created after a 17th-century Italian model.