Conversations en musique

Conversations en musique

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Arion ensemble
with Susan Napper
1993 FL2 3078

People making music together, conversing with each other through music: such was the ideal in a world before the concert hall became the principal venue for chamber music. Paris in the early 18th.C. was one place where this kind of music making flourished.

Arion bring us some polished examples from: Marin Marais, Alexandre de Villeneuve, Jean-Baptiste Quentin (Le Jeune), Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, Georg Philipp Telemann.

These instrumentalists have been playing together for a number of years. This surely accounts for the homogeneity of style as well as for the marriage of such archaic sounds as are produced by the period instruments they play, for I was under the impression that only one creative force was responsible for these performances. The group concept renders these readings flawless. This disc is a totally recommendable purchase.    – Edgar Fruitier, Journal de Montréal, Canada

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Arion ensemble

See program notes here.

Marin MARAIS (1656 – 1728)

Suite pour deux dessus et basse continue en sol mineur.
(Pièces en trio, Paris 1692)

Alexandre de VILLENEUVE (1677 – 1756)

Première Suite pour flûte et violon sans base en la mineur.
(Conversations en Manière de Sonates op. 2, Paris 1733)

Jean-Baptiste QUENTIN – Le jeune (early 18th. century)

Troisième Sonate pour flûte, violol, viole de gambe et basse continue en la mineur.
(Sonates en trio et à quatre parties .. op. 15, Paris circa 1740)

Jean-Joseph Cassaneéa de MONDONVILLE (1711 – 1772)

Quatrième Sonate pour clevecin et violon en do majeur.
(Pièces de clavecin en Sonates avec accompagnement de violon op. 3, Paris 1734)

Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681 – 1767)

Concerto Primo pour flûte, violon, viole de gambe et basse continue en sol majeur.
(Six Quatuors, Paris 1733)

Arion ensemble :

Claire Guimond, baroque flute (A. Weemaels, Bruxelles 1983, after Rottenburg circa 1725)
Chantal Rémillard, baroque violin (Antonio Mariani, Paesaro 1650)
Betsy MacMillan, viola da gamba and baroque cello (D. Rubio, 1977, after instruments of the 17th. century)
Hank Knox, harpsichord (R. Kingston, 1982, after Dülken)

with Susan Napper, baroque cello (Matteo Goffrileri, 1696)

Recorded in July 1993 at l’église Saint-Paul-de-Joliette, Quebec

Recording producer : Anton Kwiatkowski, PJ Productions Inc..

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