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Jordi Savall - Francois Couperin - Pieces de violes - 1728 (2012) {Alia Vox AVSA9893}

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Date: 22 Dec 2020 19:01:51

Jordi Savall - Francois Couperin - Pieces de violes - 1728 (2012) {Alia Vox AVSA9893}
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© 1975, 2012 Alia Vox | AVSA9893
Classical / Baroque / Chamber Music / Bass Viola da gamba / Harpsichord

This beautiful recording, once long out-of-print, is now remastered in high definition multi-channel hybrid SACD, and is the first album made by Jordi Savall for the Astrée label, now reissued on Alia Vox. With this rare 1975 disc, Savall confirmed François Couperin as a master composer for viola da gamba with affinities to the previous masters of French music. On the recording Mr. Savall plays an authentic 7-string bass viol, anonymously constructed in 17th century France. He is joined by musicians Ton Koopman playing a Gilbert des Ruisseaux harpsichord built in the late 17th century and Ariane Maurette playing a Barak Norman bass viol constructed in London in 1697. Couperin’s music for these colorful instruments is marvelous, contemplative and beguiling. The highly collectible album, a must-have of the Savall oeuvre, is now available again and features a very informative booklet.

Possibly written as a homage to Marin Marais, the great master of the basse de viol who had recently passed away at the age of seventy-two, François Couperin’s Pièces de Violes, published in 1728, are today considered as one of the finest masterpieces of baroque chamber music and one of the absolute pinnacles of the viola da gamba repertoire, comparable in rank to J.S. Bach’s 3 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord. It was in these mature works that the 60-year-old Couperin, in his love for the viola da gamba, captured as no other could in two masterly suites the essential registers of this instrument: from the elegiac lyricism of the Préludes to the unbridled virtuosity of the mysterious Chemise blanche, from the profound sadness and emotion of the Pompe funèbre to the exuberance and spirited elegance of the dance movements. As we listen to these pieces, we comprehend the full meaning of his motto: “I confess that I far prefer what moves me to what surprises me.” The phrase recalls that same opposition between being moved and being surprised that we find in the poem “Adonis” by his contemporary, the author of the Fables, Jean de la Fontaine: “Grace more beautiful than beauty itself.” For La Fontaine, beauty overwhelms and commands admiration, whereas grace subtly enters the soul and makes it resonate. Key definitions, in which these artists summed up their art, an art imbued with apparent simplicity, yet shot through with sadness and joy, each giving rise to the other and culminating in a language of soaring lyricism, which, like the purest water, flows free after being filtered through the sands of that eternal spring which is the soul of great artists.

Jordi Savall - Francois Couperin - Pieces de violes - 1728 (2012) {Alia Vox AVSA9893}

The re-release of François Couperin’s Pièces de Violes, recorded in December 1975 (a few months after the recording of the Second Book of Pièces de Viole by Marin Marais), originally released as the first record of the new label «ASTRÉE» (founded by Michel Bernstein), is a very personal occasion on which I look back and reflect - first of all, on life’s random chances and on the importance at certain key moments in life of encountering others who have the sensitivity to understand us, believe in us and help us. It goes without saying that none of this would have been possible without a long chain of vitally important and exceptional encounters: to begin with, the most essential of all, when I met Montserrat Figueras at the Conservatory of Music in Barcelona in 1963/64. This was followed a year later (after finishing my cello studies at the Conservatory), in 1965, by a summer course in chamber music at Santiago de Compostela in which I took part as a cellist along with the harpsichordist Rafael Puyana, during which he persuaded me that I should learn to play the viola da gamba, arguing that the pieces by Ortiz, Marais and Bach that I played on the cello had originally been written for that instrument. Thanks to a recommendation from Montserrat, I then met and collaborated with the ensemble Ars Musicæ of Barcelona (1965-1967), who provided me with my first viol. I immediately fell in love with the viol, and in order to gain a deep understanding and mastery of it I embarked on a series of research and study trips to the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the British Museum in London and the Bibliothèque Royale in Brussels (1966-67), and my studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel under Professor August Wenzinger (1968-1970). Other landmarks, of course, include my first meetings, collaborations and concerts with Rafael Puyana, Blandine Verlet, Hopkinson Smith and Ton Koopman, and subsequently with Michel Piguet (Ensemble Ricercare), Trevor Pinnock (The English Concert) and Gustav Leonhard (La Petite Bande). I should add that they were ten long years of training and disciplined work, during which I was constantly encouraged by the loving presence of my wife and unfailingly inspirational muse, Montserrat Figueras.

JORDI SAVALL
Bellaterra, first day of Autumn, 2012

Alia Vox INFO

Personnel:
JORDI SAVALL
basse de viole à sept cordes
TON KOOPMAN
clavecin
ARIANE MAURETTE
basse de viole

tracklist:
01 - Premiere suite- I. Prelude
02 - Premiere suite- II. Allemande legere
03 - Premiere suite- III. Courante
04 - Premiere suite- IV. Sarabande grave
05 - Premiere suite- V. Gavotte
06 - Premiere suite- VI. Gigue
07 - Premiere suite- VII. Passacaille ou Chaconne
08 - Deuxieme suite- I. Prelude
09 - Deuxieme suite- II. Fuguete
10 - Deuxieme suite- III. Pompe funebre
11 - Deuxieme suite- IV. La Chemise blanche

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