JOSEPH BODIN DE BOISMORTIER Sonates pour basses
Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet
GCD 921609
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Performing artists
Le Concert Spirituel Directed by Hervé Niquet
Jérémie Papasergio, bassoon Laurent Le Chenadec, bassoon Alain Gervreau, cello François Poly, cello Yuka Saïto, viola da gamba Sébastien d’Hérin, harpsichord Benjamin Perrot, theorbo & baroque guitar Fulvio Garlaschi, theorbo & baroque guitar
Production details
Playing time: 57’19 Recorded in Paris in December 2003 Engineered by Manuel Mohino Produced by Dominique Daigremont Executive producer: Carlos Céster Booklet essay: Stephan Perreau French, English, Spanish, German
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JOSEPH BODIN DE BOISMORTIER (1689-1755)
Sonates pour basses
01-09 Suite pour la viole (op. 31) Menuet Le Brut La Moderne Gavotte Paysanne Prélude Sarabande Gigue Menuete 10-13 Sonate VI à quatre parties (op. 34) Adagio Allegro Largo Allegro 14-17 Sonate III pour le basson (op. 26) Allegro Corrente Adagio Minuetto
18-21 Sonate II pour violoncelle (op. 50) Largo Allegro Largo Giga 22-25 Sonate III à deux parties (op. 14) Allemande gravement Allemande gayment Lentement Gigue 26-33 Suite de pièces (op. 40) Rondeau gracieusement Rigaudon I & II Rondeau Gigue Paysane Rondeau Gavotte Menuets I & II
Hervé Niquet is far less interested in being known as a Baroque music specialist than for his passionate interest in all of French music, especially its vocal and lyrical compositions and nowadays he is as liable to be found directing a symphony orchestra as his own period instrument ensemble Le Concert Spirituel. It may come, for some, as a surprise to find Niquet teaming up with the Brussels Philharmonic to record Debussy but this future release will mark the inauguration of a new adventure for Niquet and Glossa focusing on the music associated with the Prix de Rome competition which drew in scores of leading French composers all the way from 1803 through 1968. [read more...]
Taking a leading role in the revival of tragédies lyriques (or tragédies en musique), the best of the French Baroque opera tradition, is a long, daunting (and expensive) challenge but one which Hervé Niquet has been keen to accept. Present as a singer in the chorus of Les Arts Florissants in 1987 when William Christie put on Lully’s Atys, Niquet formed his own ensemble, Le Concert Spirituel that same year. Since that time he has balanced his own endeavours to stage (and record) key French tragédies with his other musical interests, which extend from Monteverdi to Purcell and Handel (soon to be reissued – now on SACD – is Niquet’s recording of the Fireworks and Water Music suites) right the way through to later composers such as Schumann, Gounod and d’Indy.[read more...]