Ensemble Danguy, Tobie Miller, Monica Mauch – Le berger innocent (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Ensemble Danguy, Tobie Miller, Monica Mauch – Le berger innocent (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:10 minutes | 2,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

Imitations of country life enjoyed great success during the reign of Louis XV. In musical terms, popular instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy and the musette enjoyed a truly golden age and inspired a vast repertoire that often evoked rural pleasures. These instruments were not only played by aristocratic amateurs but also by professional virtuosi such as l’illustre Danguy and Colin Charpentier, who delighted the French court as well as the audiences of the Concert spirituel. These imitations of rural life combine with instrumental virtuosity to form the basis of this programme, in which we hear the hurdy-gurdy and the musette in instrumental works and cantatas.

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Tobie Miller, Marc Meisel, Ensemble Danguy – La belle vielleuse: The Virtuoso Hurdy Gurdy in 18th Century France (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Tobie Miller, Marc Meisel, Ensemble Danguy – La belle vielleuse: The Virtuoso Hurdy Gurdy in 18th Century France (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:15 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical, Chamber Music
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

In the time of Madame de Pompadour, the hurdy-gurdy, like the musette, enjoyed a great success. It was considered to be on a level with other instruments and, as can be seen in various paintings, was highly regarded by the ladies of the aristocracy.

Several books of instruction for the instrument were published, one of which was Michel Corrette’s La belle vielleuse; virtuoso players such as Danguy and Dupuits extended its playing techniques to their limits. The instrument’s charm was sung by various poets whose words were then set as cantatas. The unknown works that constitute this recording place it firmly in the French court of the time with its stylised pastoral diversions.

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Ensemble Danguy, Tobie Miller – Chédeville: Les saisons amusantes (D’après Antonio Vivaldi) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ensemble Danguy, Tobie Miller – Chédeville: Les saisons amusantes (D’après Antonio Vivaldi) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:43 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

The life of Nicolas Chédeville (1705-1782) covers exactly the golden age of the hurdy-gurdy and the musette, the French baroque bagpipe. His time witnessed an ‘art of living’ that revelled playfully in the idealization of nature as a mirror of ancient Arcady, and his works contributed to the soundscape of his time, one that portrayed this idyllic milieu in operatic dramas whose heroes were constantly questing for the past … In 1739 he published Les Saisons amusantes, concertos by Antonio Vivaldi arranged for bagpipes and hurdy-gurdies. These transcriptions of concertos from Il Cimento dell armonia e dell’inventione include arrangements for the hurdy-gurdy of three concertos from the Four Seasons (“Spring”, “Autumn”, and “Winter”). The same year Chédeville made further bucolic arrangements of another three Vivaldi concertos from the same set, calling them Les Plaisirs de l’été, La Moisson, and Les Plaisirs de la Saint-Martin (a version of Vivaldi’s Il Piacere). Tobie Miller, a star virtuoso of the hurdy-gurdy whose first recording for Ricercar (“La belle vielleuse”) was heaped with critical praise, tackles this repertoire with infectious spontaneity.

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