Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie

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a satisfying issue on a fine-sounding and sympathetically recorded mid-18th-century harpsichord. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: HMC902143
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 74 minutes

Gramophone Awards

2013

Winner - Baroque Instrumental

Froberger: Suite XXX en La Mineur

Work length9:48

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I. "Plaincte faite à Londres pour passer la Melancolie la quelle se joüe lentement et à discretion"

Track length5:05

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II. Courante

Track length1:11

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III. Sarabande

Track length2:12

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IV. Gigue

Track length1:20

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Anglebert, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: Des Pièces de Claveçin, Livre premier

Work length3:13

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Fugue (Grave)

Track length3:13

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Fischer, J K F: Musicalischer Parnassus, de la Suite ,Uranie" Ré Mineur

Work length6:01

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Toccata

Track length1:24

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Passacaglia

Track length4:37

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Couperin, L: Pièces de Clavecin, Suite en Fa Majeur

Work length15:38

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Prélude

Track length2:05

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Allemande grave

Track length3:18

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Courante

Track length1:00

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Sarabande

Track length1:51

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Chaconne

Track length2:17

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Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher

Track length5:07

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Anglebert, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: Des Pièces de Claveçin, Livre premier

Work length13:42

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Prélude en Ré Mineur

Track length4:30

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Tombeau de M. de Chambonnières. Fort lentement

Track length5:32

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Chaconne Rondeau en Ré Majeur

Track length3:40

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Fischer, J K F: De Ariadne Musica, Ricercar pro Tempore Quadragesimae, super Initium Cantilenae (1702): Da Jesus an dem Creutze stund

Work length2:17

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Clérambault: Pièces de Claveçin, 1er Livre, Suite en Ut Mineur

Work length11:41

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Prélude (Fort tendrement)

Track length2:27

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Allemande (Lentement)

Track length3:54

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Courante

Track length0:53

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Sarabande (Grave)

Track length2:48

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Gigue Vite

Track length1:39

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Muffat, Georg: De Apparatus Musico-Organisticus: Passacaglia en Sol Mineur

Work length8:30

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Froberger: Libro qvartode la Suite VI: Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real Mstà. di Ferdinando IV, Ré de' Romani etc. en Ut Majeur

Work length3:48

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Andreas Staier

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Whether the composer luxuriates in melancholic disorder or attempts to remedy it, there is but a fine line here between the vanity of the world and the artist’s glory. In his readings of Froberger, Fischer and Clérambault, Andreas Staier distils the fruits of this sophisticated blend on an instrument saved from oblivion at the start of the 21st century.

"‘Why have all eminent men, whether philosophers, statesmen, poets or artists, so obviously been melancholics?’ This question forms the opening of a treatise attributed to Aristotle. The doctrine of the four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic) associates the melancholic with the most varied phenomena: the planet Saturn, the autumn (also in the sense of the autumn of life), twilight, cold, avarice, but also genius, geometry, and brooding profundity of thought. Albrecht Dürer condenses this multiplicity of motifs with extreme concentration in his celebrated and enigmatic engraving Melencolia I of 1514. ...I would like to thank Laurent Soumagnac for placing his wonderful harpsichord at my disposal for this disc, and Markus Fischinger for maintaining the instrument during the recording sessions. My very special gratitude goes to my friend and colleague Skip Sempé. He took the time for many inspiring conversations about French music of the seventeenth century." Andreas Staier

Reviews

April 2013

a satisfying issue on a fine-sounding and sympathetically recorded mid-18th-century harpsichord.

May 2013

Staier's Froberger is played with a sure hand and a compelling sense of how to stretch the music's almost verbal rhetoric to the limits of what the musical line can bear...[his] sheer exuberance in rendering this deliciously absurd music is infectious. The instrument...has more than sufficient personality to bear up to the musical demands.

March 2013

Staier surely comes close to an ideal synthesis of historical awareness and charisma … superb, both from a visual and audio perspective

July 2014

It acts as a hypnotic, can’t-turn-your-ears-away culmination of all the albums themes... Not surprisingly, the production is superb. Staier plays with his usual authority and genius…there is so much outstanding music.

7th March 2013

Much of this music sounds as if it were written centuries after its time, though it inhabits very different territory from late Romantic self-indulgence or modernist bravado. Staier plays it all with wonderful commitment on a newly restored late 17th-century harpsichord.

Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie

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