Anne Thivierge, Mélisande Corriveau, Eric Milnes – Tendres échos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Anne Thivierge, Mélisande Corriveau, Eric Milnes – Tendres échos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:16 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.

“The flute speaks, it touches, it dazzles as if it had been revealed to mankind on a glorious day of creation.” – Raymond Meylan, La flûte. Inspired by the French repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, flutist Anne Thivierge has chosen to highlight works for flute and continuo by François Couperin, Michel Blavet, Marin Marais, and Jean-Marie Leclair. Gambist Mélisande Corriveau and harpsichordist Eric Milnes accompany her on this French Baroque journey.

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Mélisande Corriveau & Eric Milnes – Marais: Works for Viola da gamba & Harpsichord (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mélisande Corriveau & Eric Milnes – Marais: Works for Viola da gamba & Harpsichord (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:15 minutes | 613 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATMA Classique

Jordi Savall’s recording of music from Marais’s fourth book of pieces de viole is superb: elegant fluent, spirited and evocative. The music is some of Marais’s most demanding, technically and musically and Savall is uniquely suited among modern piayers to dispatch his intended unorthodoxies with just the right panache. The choice of a baroque guitar in addition to harpsichord, lending a touch of exoticism, is a stroke of genius—so effective is Hopkinson Smith’s playing that I wish it had more often been left to accompany the viol alone.

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