SIEUR DE SAINTE-COLOMBE: Concerts à deux violes esgales – JORDI SAVALL, WIELAND KUIJKEN (2 HYBRID SACDS) ALIA VOX

Wieland Kuijken
Jordi Savall

Nothing or next to nothing was known about Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe – not even his first name – and the mystery surrounding his person only intensified the mystery of his music: the Concerts à deux violes, which are the only pieces that have come down to us. He was known to violists as the inventor of the seventh string that was added to the bass viol of the Baroque era in France. It was gathered that he had two daughters because he was known to have given concerts with them. And Titon du Tillet had recounted the pleasing story of Marin Marais coming to listen to his master in secret, hidden under the hut in a mulberry tree where the latter “played the viol more peacefully and more delectably”.

CD 1

1-5. CONCERT XXVII : BOURRASQUE
Bourrasque – Balet – Saraband – Gavote – 2e Sarabande gaye

6-8. CONCERT XLVIII : LE RAPORTÉ
Le raporté – La Belle– Passacaille du raporté – Chacone raportée

9-15. CONCERT XLI : LE RETOUR
Le retour – en gigue – en menuet – en gigue
en courante – balet tendre– en pianelle

16-19. CONCERT XLIV : TOMBEAU LES REGRETS
Tombeau Les Regrets– Quarillon – Les pleurs
Joye des Elizées – Les Elizées

20-25. CONCERT LIV : [LA] DUBOIS[La] Dubois – Gigue 1e – 2e Gigue en bourrasque
Menuet – Chacone Dubois – Gavote

CD 2

1-5. CONCERT VIII : LA CONFÉRENCE
La conférence – 1e Gigue – 2e Gigue – Ballet – Gigue L’aisée

6-9. CONCERT XLII : LE RAPORTÉ
Dalain – ballet – Gigue

10-13. CONCERT III : LE TENDRE
Le Tendre – Sarabande du tendre – Gavote La ferme –
Menuet du tendre

14-20. CONCERT LI : [LA] ROUGEVILLE
Rougeville – Gigue – Sarabande – En gavote
Menuet lent – Planelle lente – Chacone de Rougeville

21. CONCERT LXII : LE FIGURÉ