Couperin, F: Pièces de violes avec la basse chiffrée

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Pandolfo is a master of the style; in slow movements barely a note passes without some subtle bowing nuance or full blown ornament… recorded sound is excellent. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: GCD920414
Label: Glossa
Length: 59 minutes

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Couperin, F: Pièces de violes avec la basse chiffrée

Work length22:22

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Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Markus Hunninger (harpsichord), Thomas Boysen (baroque guitar), Amelie Chemin (viola da gamba)
Recorded: September 2012
Recording Venue: Eglise Saint Didier, Rasteau, France

I. Prelude

Track length4:29

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II. Allemande legere

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III. Courante

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IV. Sarabande grave

Track length4:11

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V. Gavotte

Track length1:46

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:09

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VII. Passacaille ou Chaconne

Track length5:41

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Couperin, F: Concert No. 12 (les Goûts réunis) in A major, à deux violes ou autres instrumens à l’unisson

Work length8:58

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Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Amelie Chemin (viola da gamba)
Recorded: September 2012
Recording Venue: Eglise Saint Didier, Rasteau, France

I. Pointe-coule

Track length2:34

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II. Badinage

Track length1:43

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III. Lentement, et patetiquement

Track length1:19

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IV. Air: Gracieusement, et legerement

Track length3:22

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Couperin, F: Pièces de violes avec la basse chiffrée

Work length12:31

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Thomas Boysen (theorbo), Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Markus Hunninger (harpsichord), Amelie Chemin (viola da gamba)
Recorded: September 2012
Recording Venue: Eglise Saint Didier, Rasteau, France

I. Prelude

Track length2:20

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II. Fuguete

Track length1:48

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III. Pompe funebre

Track length5:15

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IV. La Chemise blanche

Track length3:08

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Couperin, F: Concert No. 13 (les Goûts réunis) in G major, à deux instrumens à l’unisson

Work length11:36

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Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Thomas Boysen (theorbo), Markus Hunninger (harpsichord), Amelie Chemin (viola da gamba)
Recorded: September 2012
Recording Venue: Eglise Saint Didier, Rasteau, France

I. Vivement

Track length1:56

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II. Air

Track length3:21

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III. Sarabande

Track length3:32

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IV. Chaconne legere

Track length2:47

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Couperin, F: Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 10 in A minor

Work length4:12

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Amelie Chemin (viola da gamba), Markus Hunninger (harpsichord), Thomas Boysen (baroque guitar), Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
Recorded: September 2012
Recording Venue: Eglise Saint Didier, Rasteau, France

Les gouts-reunis: Concerto No. 10 in A minor: III. Plainte pour les Violes: Lentement et douloureusement

Track length4:12

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The confidential, almost secretive, musical world of François Couperin is known through the innumerable emotional connections made in his harpsichord works, but he was also able to produce the same sensations when writing for the viola da gamba. Paolo Pandolfo has brought together on one new album on Glossa these works of Couperin’s full maturity, demonstrating the composer’s spiritual and mischievous tendencies in equal measure (as well as his own mastery of the subtleties of the gamba).

As well as the Plainte from the Tenth Concert Royal, there are two full Concerts from the collection entitled Les Goûts Réunis which ask for two violas da gamba. These are included alongside what may have been Couperin’s final works, the two sets of the Pièces de violes which, being supplied with a figured bass, call upon for the involvement of other instruments such as theorbo and harpsichord.

Considered by the booklet essay writer, Philippe Beaussant, to be ranked as one of Couperin’s masterpieces, the second Suite (which lay undiscovered for almost 250 years) contains an astonishing pair of pieces called Pompe funèbre (Couperin’s musical testament?) and La Chemise blanche.

Paolo Pandolfo is joined in this recording – made in the French village of Rasteau – by a second gamba player in Amélie Chemin, as well as by frequent collaborators from recent years in Thomas Boysen (theorbo, Baroque guitar) and Markus Hünninger (harpsichord).

Reviews

August 2013

Pandolfo is a master of the style; in slow movements barely a note passes without some subtle bowing nuance or full blown ornament… recorded sound is excellent.

Early Music Review June 2013

It’s a stunning recording – music of the highest quality, played with, in turn, lyricism, virtuosity, and a new freedom, yet respect and insight into this most fastidious composer’s clear intentions in all his paraphernalia of bowings, phrasing marks and ornamentation. My record of the year.”

Early Music Today

Paolo Pandolfo is a wonderfully rhetorical exponent of this beautiful repertoire. The Preludes are freely motivated and unhurried and his phrasing both idiomatic and expressively sensitive. A fine recital, which in addition features two ‘concerts’ for two bass viols from Couperin’s ‘Les Goûts réunis’.

Classical Music June 2013

Paolo Pandolfo is a wonderfully rhetorical exponent of this beautiful repertoire.

Couperin, F: Pièces de violes avec la basse chiffrée

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