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Robert de Visée: Theorbo Solos

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Catalogue numberBIS-2562 SACD
Release date2024-05-17
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

12 years after his album entitled ‘Italian Virtuosi of the Chitarrone’ (BIS-1899), Jakob Lindberg returns to his magnificent theorbo, specially built for him by the luthier Michael Lowe, based on an instrument preserved in the Musée de la Musique in Paris. One of the most spectacular instruments of the early baroque owing to its length and great number of strings, the theorbo was originally designed to accompany the voice, but is also ideally suited to solo performance. For this disc, Lindberg has chosen pieces by Robert de Visée, one of the great French masters of the lute, theorbo and guitar repertoire and a favourite of Louis XIV. The recording features dances as well as character pieces, including a moving ‘Plainte’ in memory of his two deceased daughters. It also includes de Visée’s arrangements of compositions by Lully, Couperin and Purcell as well as his own version of Les Folies d’Espagne, a very popular chord progression that inspired so many composers of his time. Jakob Lindberg writes: ‘I can’t help but be seduced by the grace of the instrument’s lines, the resonance of its sonorities, and by the unmistakably French elegance of this remarkable composer.’
 
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$ 9.42
 
Extra material for download
 
  Visée: Suite in A minor 13:46
01 Prélude 01:53 $ 0.23 USD
02 Allemande La Royalle 02:53 $ 0.35 USD
03 Courante 01:44 $ 0.21 USD
04 Sarabande 02:14 $ 0.27 USD
05 Gavotte 01:05 $ 0.13 USD
06 Rondeau La Mascarade 01:28 $ 0.18 USD
07 Chaconne 02:29 $ 0.30 USD
 
  Visée: Suite in D major 10:25
08 Prélude 01:01 $ 0.12 USD
09 Allemande 02:26 $ 0.29 USD
10 Courante 01:41 $ 0.20 USD
11 Sarabande 03:43 $ 0.45 USD
12 Gigue 01:34 $ 0.19 USD
 
  Visée: Pieces in D minor 12:20
13 Prélude 01:20 $ 0.16 USD
14 Entrée d'Apollon 02:34 $ 0.31 USD
15 Air 01:54 $ 0.23 USD
16 Contredance La Furstemberg 03:16 $ 0.39 USD
17 Passacaille 03:16 $ 0.39 USD
 
  Visée: Pieces in C Minor 05:36
18 Prélude 00:53 $ 0.11 USD
19 La Plainte or Tombeau des Mesdemoiselles de Visée, filles
de l'Auteur
04:43 $ 0.57 USD
 
  Visée: Pieces in G Major 17:00
20 Prélude 01:08 $ 0.14 USD
21 Entrée des Espagnolles 01:41 $ 0.20 USD
22 Les Sylvains 04:26 $ 0.53 USD
23 Musette 04:33 $ 0.55 USD
24 Chaconne 05:12 $ 0.62 USD
 
  Visée: Suite in E minor 15:12
25 Prélude 01:14 $ 0.15 USD
26 Allemande 03:09 $ 0.38 USD
27 Courante 01:56 $ 0.23 USD
28 Sarabande 02:48 $ 0.34 USD
29 Gigue - Double 03:06 $ 0.37 USD
30 Gavotte 01:23 $ 0.17 USD
31 Rondeau La Monfermeil 01:36 $ 0.19 USD
 
  Visée: Folies d'Espagne
32 Folies d'Espagne 04:13 $ 0.51 USD
 
  Album total 78:32
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