Morel: Premier Livre de Pièces de Violle

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Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: 95962
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 71 minutes

Morel, Jacques: 1er Livre de pieces de violle: Suite No. 1 in A Minor

Work length17:53

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Alejandro Marías (viola da gamba)
Spagna, La
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Madrid, Spain

I. Prélude: Lentement - Vîte

Track length3:47

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II. Allemande

Track length2:00

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III. Courante

Track length1:54

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IV. Sarabande l'agréable

Track length3:32

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V. Gigue

Track length1:10

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VI. La bretonne: Gratieusement

Track length3:25

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VII. Menuet: I-II

Track length2:05

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Morel, Jacques: 1er Livre de pieces de violle: Suite No. 2 in D minor

Work length12:54

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Alejandro Marías (viola da gamba)
Spagna, La
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Madrid, Spain

I. Prelude

Track length2:03

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II. Allemande La Jolie

Track length1:59

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III. Courante La Dacier

Track length1:28

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IV. Sarabande

Track length3:03

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V. Gigue L'Inconstante

Track length1:14

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VI. Le Folet

Track length2:16

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VII. La Fanchonette

Track length0:51

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Morel, Jacques: 1er Livre de pieces de violle: Suite No. 3 in D Major

Work length17:24

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Alejandro Marías (viola da gamba)
Spagna, La
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Madrid, Spain

I. Prélude

Track length2:29

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II. Boutade de Sainct Germain

Track length0:58

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III. Allemande la brillante and double

Track length2:54

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IV. Courante

Track length1:26

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V. Sarabande l'aurore

Track length2:06

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VI. Gigue à l'anglaise

Track length1:27

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VII. Gavotte

Track length1:03

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VIII. Fugue: Gayment

Track length3:01

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IX. Échos de Fontainebleau

Track length2:00

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Morel, Jacques: 1er Livre de pieces de violle: Suite No. 4 in G Major

Work length15:53

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Alejandro Marías (viola da gamba)
Spagna, La
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Madrid, Spain

I. Prélude: Lentement

Track length2:00

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II. Fantaisie: Gayement

Track length0:57

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III. Allemande

Track length1:28

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IV. Courante

Track length1:37

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V. Sarabande

Track length2:20

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VI. Gigue à l'italienne

Track length1:20

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VII. Rondeau dauphin

Track length4:18

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VIII. Menuet

Track length0:38

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IX. La guerandoise and double

Track length1:15

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Morel, Jacques: Chaconne in G major

Work length7:05

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Alejandro Marías (viola da gamba)
Spagna, La

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French Baroque chamber music by a much-admired contemporary of Marin Marais.

In a personal introduction to his own authoritative booklet essay, the Spanish violist Alejandro Marías relates how he acquired the rare facsimile of an even rarer manuscript, and came to realise that its contents had never seen the light of day in the modern era, let alone received attention on record. Thus he presents here the First Book of Pieces – a second does not survive – by Jacques Morel.

The volume itself was published in 1709, two years before Marin Marais’s Third Book of pieces. Morel’s date of birth is now obscured by time, but we know that he was a pupil of Marais, to whom he dedicated this book. And indeed Morel makes no attempt to disguise the debt he felt to his master within his music.

The book contains four Suites for viola da gamba and continuo – in A minor, D minor, D major and G major, respectively – and a Chaconne en trio for a traverso flute, viol and basso continuo. This gentle and courtly six-minute Chaconne is the only piece of Morel’s that is regularly performed, but the four Suites are full of delightful discoveries. The second of them begins with a Prelude of bold and grave gestures which introduce a colourful suite of character pieces: the Allemande la Jolie (‘The pretty one’), the Courante la Dacier, a gentle, dream-like Sarabande and the Gigue l’Inconstante (‘The faithless one’). To end, there is an enjoyable rondeau, Le Folet (‘The imp’), and La Fanchonnette, reminiscent of a gavotte in feel and structure.

The other three suites are no less picturesque, and they are brought to life once more on this album by an early-music group founded in 2009 and named after a popular Renaissance dance. La Spagna has been awarded Spain’s GEMA prize for best young Early Music group.

Morel: Premier Livre de Pièces de Violle

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