On a quiet summer afternoon, with the living
room door half open, through the doorway comes a smell of perfume,
muffled laughter from the courtesans and the sweet sounds of the violin
virtuoso…
Delicious music of the XVIII century Paris salon.
This CD contains masterpieces of the best
masters of french baroque secular cantata which were : Montéclair,
Rameau, Clerambault, and fantastic instrumental chamber music of the
genious Couperin, and Marais. This combination of composers, and choice
of the repertoir gives very colourful, divers, and exciting program.
With the works of Clérambault, Montéclair and Rameau, the French Cantata
reached a kind of apogee, pushing the limits of its theatricality and
becoming increasingly more operatic. On one hand, these composers borrow
the varied pace, exuberance and quick modulations from the Italian
style, on the other hand, they expand the instrumental parts, using
trumpets, horns, violins and even timpani, which far from being a mere
accompaniment to the story. Marin Marais was one of the first to
introduce trio compositions, typically used by the Italians, into
France. His famous Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris
(Bells of St. Genevieve in the Hills of Paris) is an amazing example of
virtuosity on the viola da gamba. François Couperin, less engaged with
cantata writing than his contemporaries is one of the most important
chamber music composers of the French Baroque, in which he reaches an
artistic peak with Le Gouts Reunis, and L’Apothéose de Corelli.
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