Antoine Forqueray & Jean-Baptiste Forqueray: Pieces de viole avec la basse continue
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.GCDC80412

By Edoardo Eguez, Guido Balestracci, Guido Morini, Paolo Pandolfo, and Rolf Lislevand. By Antoine Forqueray and Jean-Baptiste Forqueray. Classical. Listening CD (2 discs). Published by Glossa Music (NX.GCDC80412).

Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray represent the two leading figures from the world of the French viola da gamba with - in the opinion of a contemporary in Hubert Le Blanc - the former playing like an angel and the latter like a devil. And fiendishly difficult to play, of course, are many of the pieces brought together in the volume prepared by Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (“le fils”) in 1747, two years after the death of his father, and drawn from sketches and memories. Glossa is now bringing back into circulation - in a newly-prepared edition - the recording which introduced Paolo Pandolfo to the label, where he was joined by a starry group of fellow performers in Guido Balestracci, Rolf Lislevand, Eduardo Eguez and Guido Morini. A legendary album, one which confirmed Pandolfo, now some twenty years ago, as one of the greatest viola da gambists of our own present times.

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