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Les Défis de Monsieur Forqueray

Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba)

Forqueray’s own music drives the gamba to explore new effects and sonorities…Boulanger responds to his musical chiaroscuro…The players are equally receptive to the expressive contrasts of Forqueray’s...

Les Défis de Monsieur Forqueray

Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba)

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Forqueray’s own music drives the gamba to explore new effects and sonorities…Boulanger responds to his musical chiaroscuro…The players are equally receptive to the expressive contrasts of Forqueray’s...

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In her debut recording for harmonia mundi, Lucile Boulanger explores the facets of Antoine Forqueray’s career as a virtuoso instrumentalist: adept in a wide range of Italian repertoire and skilled at transcribing works originally intended for the violin, he could try it on for size, as it were, before settling on a different medium.

With the viola da gamba, he extended the technique of playing it far beyond the norm, confronting the performer with fiendishly difficult challenges… which have been met brilliantly by the hugely talented foursome heard here.

Contents and tracklist

I. Adagio
Track length2:19
II. Allegro
Track length2:18
III. Largo
Track length2:43
IV. Allemanda
Track length2:54
V. Giga Allegro
Track length1:47
I. Andante. Dolce
Track length2:54
II. Allemanda. Allegro ma non tropo
Track length4:36
III. Sarabanda. Adagio
Track length4:06
IV. Minuetto. Allegro non tropo
Track length2:20
I. Adagio
Track length2:45
II. Allegro
Track length2:10
III. Adagio
Track length3:52
IV. Allegro
Track length1:10
V. Allegro
Track length2:46
I. La Marella. Vivement et marqué
Track length2:38
II. La Clément. Noblement et détaché
Track length4:20
III. Sarabande La D'aubonne
Track length4:38
IV. La Bournonville. Mouvement élevé
Track length2:47
V. La Sainscy. Gracieusement et avec esprit
Track length3:08
VI. Le Carillon de Passy. Légèrement sans vitesse - La Latour. D'un mouvement un peu plus vif - Le Carillon de Passy (reprise)
Track length6:24

Awards and reviews

February 2019

Forqueray’s own music drives the gamba to explore new effects and sonorities…Boulanger responds to his musical chiaroscuro…The players are equally receptive to the expressive contrasts of Forqueray’s bilingual idiom: here, fiery and virtuosic, inflamed by the Italian ‘fantastic style’, elsewhere languid and balletic, reflecting courtly French tastes.

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