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
- Pierre Gallon, Romain Falik, Lucile Boulanger (soloist)
- Pierre Gallon, Lucile Boulanger (soloist)
- Claire Gautrot, Pierre Gallon, Lucile Boulanger (soloist)
- Romain Falik (soloist)
- Pierre Gallon, Claire Gautrot, Lucile Boulanger (soloist)
- Claire Gautrot, Pierre Gallon, Lucile Boulanger (soloist), Romain Falik (soloist)
- Claire Gautrot, Pierre Gallon, Lucile Boulanger (soloist), Romain Falik (soloist)
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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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