MARIN MARAIS (1656-1728)

 

Suite in a Foreign Style, Suitte d'un Gout Etranger

 

CD1: Marche Tartare,Allemande, Sarabande, La Tartarine, Double, Gavotte, Feste, Champêtre, Gigue la Fleselle, Rondeau le Bijou, Le Tourbillon, L'Uniforme, Suitte, L'Ameriquaine, Allemande sujet - Gigue Bass, Allemande l'Asmatique, La Tourneuse, Muzette

 

CD2: Caprice ou Sonate, Le Labyrinthe, La Sauterelle, La Fougade, Allemande la Bizare, La Minaudière, Allemande la Singulière, L'Arabesque, Allemande la Superbe, La Reveuse, Marche, Gigue, Pièce Luthée, Gigue la Caustique, Le Badinage

 

Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord); Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Rolf Lislevand (theorbs, guitars); Philippe Pierlot (bass viol); Andrew Lawrence-King (harp 'di tre ordine'); Pedro Estevan (percussion); Jordi Savall (bass viol)

 

To celebrate Marin Marais' 350th birthday, Jordi Savall has made his first complete recording of Marais' most intricate work: the Suitte d'un Goût Etranger. As indicated in the detailed liner notes, these 33 pieces offer the quintessence of the art of Marais, with fascinating titles like La Rêveuse (The Dreamer), La Singulière (The Special), La Bizarre (The Weird), La Superbe (The Proud), including the final Badinage, full of nostalgia. No other work in the baroque repertoire surpasses this fabulous 'Suitte'. Surrounded by superb artists, Jordi Savall performs the type of repertoire with which he so famously made his mark in the film Tous les matins du monde.

 

"the supreme exponent of French viol playing." Gramophone

"the Catalan master of the bass viol" CD Review, BBC Radio 3

"No CD collection of viol music would be complete without some by Jordi Savall, whose playing and musicianship is legendary." Early Music Today

 

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