Jean Rondeau -Melancholy Grace -ERATO CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "Toccata Nr. 7"

02. "Fantaisie de Mr. de Lorency"

03. "Passacaille del Seigr. Louigi"

04. "Toccata per l'elevazione"

05. "Fantasia cromatica"

06. "Ballo alla Polacha con il suo Saltarello"

07. "Melancholy Pavan"

08. "Melancholy Galliard"

09. "Pavana Lachrymae WV 106"

10. "Ballo alla Polacha (Alt. I)"

11. "Toccata im 4. Ton"

12. "Recercar di Legature"

13. "Toccata Nr. 4"

14. "Toccata Nr. 1"

15. "Ballo alla Polacha (Alt. II)"

16. "Sortemeplus, con alcuni fioretti (Sortez mes pleurs)"

17. "Pavana FWV CCXCII"

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Description:

Rondeauâ??s new release, Melancholy Grace, is a poetic collection of 16th and 17th century keyboard music from Italy, the Netherlands, England and Germany. Among the composers are Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Sweelinck, Dowland, Bull and Gibbons. The album is shaped as a sombre, but eloquent dialogue between two contrasting voices: melancholy conveyed through chromaticism and melancholy conveyed through the musical expression of tears and weeping. Each voice finds expression on a different instrument: a 16th century Italian virginal (a compact harpsichord) for the â??tearsâ?? and a modern replica of a large 18th century harpsichord for the â??chromaticâ?? pieces. -

Recorded: 4-8.X.2020, Temple de Corcelles, Switzerland. Instruments: - Polygonal Virginal (Arpicordo) possibly by Francesco Poggi, Florence, c.1575 (tracks 7-9, 16, 17) - Harpsichord by Philippe Humeau, Barbaste, 2007, after an anonymous early-18th-century Italian model (tracks 1-6, 10-15) 4-panel digipak including a 34-page booklet with notes in French, English and German. Total timing 80:00. NB: track 17 contains a hidden track. A Warner Classics/Erato release. ? &© 2021 Parlophone Records Limited Manufactured and printed in Germany

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9029500899

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