Marin Marais - Pieces de Viole du Quatrieme Livre.

Download via rapidhsare
11 tracks - Mp3 320 kbps - RAR 104 mb - Covers+Booklet

Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
Ton Koopman, cembalo
Hopkinson Smith, tiorba

Les Pieces de Viole of Marin Marais were recorded for the first time of an integral way by Jordi Savall and diverse instrumentalists between the year 1975 and 1992.
This Suitte d'un Gout Etranger corresponds to the second one of these recordings, in January, 1977, and Savall (using one viola da gamba of anonymous author of the 18th century) is joined by Ton Koopman and Hopkinson Smith. All, young and iconoclasts men at the time, musicians of what today is known as the Second Generation of baroque musicians. Will they have imagined what the future would provide them and how they would transform into models and leaders of a whole cultural movement? The most probable thing is that not.
Published in 1717, when Marais already was counting respectable 61 years, the Fourth Book comes to be a formidable response to the mode italianizante of the French court. The most fierce rival of Marais-Antoine Forqueray - was personifying the vibrant foreign style and Marais was kept as the classic "nationalistic" inheritor of Lully's tradition.
Speaking in current terms I would dare to say that this Livre IV it is Marais's attempt of being kept in force in the renewed court - where his former boss Louis XIV has just died only two years ago - giving a rococo touch to his music by means of the incorporation of "characteristic" themes(this is naming the movements of the suite with picturesque or evocative titles); a complete example of this is Le Labyrinthe.
For whom we knew this wonderful music through the movie " Tous les Matins du Monde" - in the middle of the 90's-, a theme like La Reveuse (The Dreamer) will bring us nostalgic and agreeable images of a Gerard Depardieu regreting to his dying past. In Les Fetes Champestres you will be able to feel the beat of the bagpipes and the dance with a strong rustic air. Le Tourbillon is almost a monument to the ego with this amazing fingering that only is reserved to the chosen ones. And this way we might continue...