Le Secret de Monsieur Marais

Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra - Le Secret de Monsieur Marais (2020)

Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, Il Suonar Parlante Orchestra - Le Secret de Monsieur Marais (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 68:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA 453 | Recorded: 2019

Between 1680 and 1728, Marin Marais brought the pièce de viole to the peak of perfection. An ‘unremitting’ teacher, he was also the publisher of his own music and invented special signs to notate certain ornaments for the viol. In the course of his research at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Italian gambist Vittorio Ghielmi studied these manuscript codes, in the hand of Marais himself or his direct students. ‘This led me to a new vision of French Baroque music, which applies not only to the viola da gamba, but also to vocal and orchestral music. These signs reveal the technique of playing in action.
Vittorio Ghielmi - Le secret de Monsieur Marais (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Vittorio Ghielmi - Le secret de Monsieur Marais (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:07:31 minutes | 1,23 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Between 1680 and 1728, Marin Marais brought the pièce de viole to the peak of perfection.
Luca Pianca, Il Suonar parlante Orchestra & Vittorio Ghielmi - Le secret de Monsieur Marais (2020)

Luca Pianca, Il Suonar parlante Orchestra & Vittorio Ghielmi - Le secret de Monsieur Marais (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 370 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 162 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:38
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Between 1680 and 1728, Marin Marais brought the pièce de viole to the peak of perfection. An unremitting’ teacher, he was also the publisher of his own music and invented special signs to notate certain ornaments for the viol. In the course of his research at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Italian gambist Vittorio Ghielmi studied these manuscript codes, in the hand of Marais himself or his direct students. ‘This led me to a new vision of French Baroque music, which applies not only to the viola da gamba, but also to vocal and orchestral music. These signs reveal the technique of playing in action. Contrary to the static descriptions of the treatises of the time, one has the impression of seeing didactic “videos”.’
Jordi Savall, Wieland Kuijken - Jean de Sainte-Colombe: Concerts à deux violes esgales, Tome II (1992)

Jordi Savall, Wieland Kuijken - Jean de Sainte-Colombe: Concerts à deux violes esgales, Tome II (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 280 Mb | Total time: 61:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Astrée Auvidis | # E 8743 | Recorded: 1992

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”.