Agnès Boissonnot--Guilbault - Bach- Suites françaises (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Through this disc, you will hear the French suites of J-S Bach in a completely different light. It is the result of a work of more than two years having been given only once in concert, during the Leipzig Bach Festival in June 2022.
It is following an order from the same festival for the summer of 2020 that our quest begins. The unfavorable sanitary conditions postponed this concert until 2022 and it was during this period that the idea of this adaptation of the French Suites came to us.
These arrangements, sometimes closer to rewriting, allowed us to question the different textures that the viola da gamba/ harpsichord formation could offer, as well as the multiple roles that each of our instruments could assume, in the score. The pieces present in these suites will be performed sometimes on the harpsichord alone, sometimes on the viola da gamba accompanied by the harpsichord in its role of basso continuo or in a trio form with an additional voice written and directed by Nora Dargazanli.
Since each suite starts with a German woman, we have chosen to add preludes by François Couperin, Marin Marais and Caix d'hervelois in order to impregnate them, a little more, with the French aesthetics of the dance suites from which they draw their inspiration.

TRACKLIST

1. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - L'art de toucher le clavecin: I. Prélude
2. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite francaise no. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: I. Allemande
3. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: II. Courante
4. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: III. Sarabande
5. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: IV. Gavotte
6. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: V. Bourree
7. Nora Dargazanli - Suite Francaise No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: VI. Gigue
8. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite en do mineur, livre 3: I. Prélude
9. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: I. Allemande
10. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: II. Courante
11. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: III. Sarabande
12. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: IV. Air
13. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: V. Menuet
14. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: VI. Gigue
15. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite en ré mineur, livre 2: I. Prélude
16. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812: I. Allemande
17. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812: II. Courante
18. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812: III. Sarabande
19. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812: IV. Menuet I
20. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812: V. Menuet II
21. Agnès Boissonnot–Guilbault - Suite Francaise No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812: VI. Gigue



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