MARAIS: SUITTE D’UN GOUT ETRANGER – SAVALL, HANTAI, PIERLOT, LISLEVAND (HYBRID SACD) ALIA VOX

Jordi Savall
Pierre Hantaï
Philippe Pierlot
Xavier Díaz-Latorre
Rolf Lislevand
Andrew Lawrence-King
Pedro Estevan
It was around 1959 that I discovered the existence of Marin Marais and his Pieces for Viol. I was seventeen and had been studying the cello for just over two years. Being very inquisitive by nature, I was already searching for unknown works, music that nobody played any more. At number 97 on the famous “Ramblas” in Barcelona, in the music shop called “CASA BEETHOVEN”, I was intrigued to find a “Suite in D minor”, arranged for the cello by Christian Döbereiner and published by SCHOTT & Co. in 1933. I remember being instantly charmed by the highly original character of the various pieces it contained: Prélude, Sarabande Grave, Paysanne, Charivary and, in particular, by the Variations of the Folies d’Espagne. What fascinated me about all those pieces that I gradually explored and continued to revisit, like those by François Couperin, Caix d’Hervelois, August Kühnel, Jan Schenk, Christopher Simpson, Diego Ortiz and, of course, J.S. Bach’s three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, was their distinctive style, one which although belonging to an earlier, unfamiliar age, was at the same time acutely relevant because of its vitality, poetry and imagination.

PIÈCES DE VIOLE du IV Livre, 1717CD 11. Marche Tartare IV.55 2’112. Allemande IV.56 2’113. Sarabande IV.57 2’494. La Tartarine IV.58 0’575. Double IV.59 1’126. Gavotte IV.60 1’427. Feste Champêtre IV.61 5’458. Gigue la Fleselle IV.62 2’269. Rondeau le Bijou IV.63 5’5810. Le Tourbillon IV.64 1’3511. L’Uniforme IV.65 1’2412. Suitte IV.66 0’5613. Suitte IV.67 2’2414. L’Ameriquaine IV.68 4’2115. Allemande sujet – Gigue Basse IV.69 2’3616. Allemande l’Asmatique IV.70 1’4117. La Tourneuse IV.71 2’3618. Muzette IV.72 5’00CD 21. Caprice ou Sonate IV.73 5’292. Le Labyrinthe IV.74 10’513. La Sauterelle IV.75 2’334. La Fougade IV.76 4’065. Allemande la Bizare IV.77 2’426. La Minaudière IV.78 1’567. Allemande la Singulière IV.79 2’348. L’Arabesque IV.80 4’499. Allemande la Superbe IV.81 3’0110. La Reveuse IV.82 7’3911. Marche IV.83 2’0112. Gigue IV.84 1’2013. Pièce Luthée IV.85 1’4214. Gigue la Caustique IV.86 1’5315. Le Badinage IV.87 3’55