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Marais and Antoine Forqueray represent the two leading figures from the
world of the French viola da gamba with – in the opinion of a
contemporary in Hubert Le Blanc – the former playing like an angel and
the latter like a devil. And fiendishly difficult to play, of course,
are many of the pieces brought together in the volume prepared by
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (“le fils”) in 1747, two years after the death
of his father, and drawn from sketches and memories. These
Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë,
dedicated to Princess Henriette of France (the younger of Louis XV’s
twin daughters), serve as a final and grand homage to an instrument,
which after seventy years of an absolute rule was by that time starting
to cede territory to the cello...
Glossa is now bringing back into circulation – in a newly-prepared edition – the recording which introduced Paolo Pandolfo
to the label, where he was joined by a starry group of fellow
performers in Guido Balestracci, Rolf Lislevand, Eduardo Egüez and Guido
Morini. The exemplary texts of Edmond Lemaître and Pierre Jaquier
further enhance a legendary album, one which confirmed Pandolfo, now
some fifteen years ago, as one of the greatest viola da gambists of our
own present times. (GLOSSA)
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