MARIN MARAIS Le Labyrinthe
Paolo Pandolfo
GCD 920404
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Performing artists
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gambaMitzi Meyerson, harpsichordThomas Boysen, theorbo and baroque guitarJuan Carlos de Mulder, baroque guitarAlba Fresno, viola da gambaFrançois Fauché, reciterPedro Estevan, percussion
Production details
Playing time: 64'15 Recorded in Cuenca (Iglesia de San Miguel), Spain, in June 1999 Engineered by Isidro Matamoros Edited by Bertram Kornacher and Carlos Céster Produced by Emilio Moreno, Paolo Pandolfo and Carlos Céster Design: Carlos CésterIconographic research: Pierre JaquierPhotographs: Mitzi Meyerson Booklet essay: Pierre Jaquier Paolo Pandolfo French, English, Spanish, German
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MARIN MARAIS (1656-1728)
Le Labyrinthe et autres Histoires
1 Prélude en Harpegement 2 Le Labyrinthe 3 Cloches ou Carillon 4 La Polonaise 5 La Musette 6 La Guitare 7 La Georgienne dite La Maupertuy 8 Plainte 9 Le Jeu du Volant 10 Marche Persane dite La Savigny 11 Rondeau. Le Bijou 12 Sarabande à l'Espagnol 13 Le Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille 14 Le Tourbillon 15 Tombeau pour Marais le Cadet 16 Chaconne en Rondeau
There are keyboard players whose names adorn books of technical exercises – Carl Czerny, Charles-Louis Hanon and JB Cramer spring to mind – but Mitzi Meyerson, Glossa’s very own expert in sumo wrestling, social work and a Persian cat named Yofi, is cast from a somewhat different mould. It will not just be piano and harpsichord students who will have cause to recall the Chicago-born artist but any number of her fellow citizens (including non keyboard-playing cabbies) now that the ‘Mitzi Meyerson Way’ has officially been opened outside the main entrance to Roosevelt University on downtown Wabash Avenue in Chicago’s 2nd Ward. [read more...]