Recorded May 2, 2023 - Théâtre de la Cité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie
- Jordi SAVALL : Conductor, seven-string bass viol
- Pascal QUIGNARD : recitant and original texts
- LE CONCERT DES NATIONS : Manfredo Kraemer, violin / Charles Zebley, flute/ Philippe Pierlot, seven-string bass viol / Xavier Díaz-Latorre, theorbe & guitare / Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
PROGRAM :
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Mr. de Sainte-Colombe, le père
- Marin Marais
- François Couperin
Following the immense success of Alain Corneau's film Tous les matins du monde (which won a César for Best Soundtrack in 1992, one of eight Césars the film received), based on Pascal Quignard's book of the same title, and the triumphant reception the public gave to the music of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, his pupil Marin Marais and François Couperin, Jordi Savall - surrounded by some of the musicians who took part in recording the film's music - wants to celebrate this 31st anniversary. He pays tribute to Alain Corneau and Pascal Quignard, as well as to all those great musicians of the Great Century whom the film so effectively helped to make better known: Lully, the superintendent of the Sun King's music, forged the taste of an entire century, as did François Couperin, and of course the two protagonists Sainte-Colombe le père - with his concerts for two equal viols - and Marin Marais, thanks to his marvelous viol pieces, sometimes nostalgic or dreamy, sometimes luminous and virtuoso, and which, in the hand of Jordi Savall, gave the film all its depth. "I remember my first meeting with Jordi in 1990," writes Pascal Quignard, "he had read the novel: he was as concentrated as I imagined Sainte-Colombe... they were recording in the dead of night. It was cold. I was sleeping on a bench in the chapel (Saint-Lambert-des-Bois)... I've only kept one record of 1991. It's an old 17th-century score on which Jordi hand-copied Sainte-Colombe's piece Les Pleurs... and at the bottom of which he wrote: "For Pascal in memory of a dream…". ams sometimes spread beyond the night that shelters them ".
Detailed musical program
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY (1632 - 1687) Suite Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
March for the ceremony of the Turks
1st Air des Espagnols - 2nd Air des Espagnols Canarie - Chaconne des Scaramouches
MONSIEUR DE SAINTE-COLOMBE, LE PÈRE (C. 1640 - C. 1700)
Les Pleurs - for solo viol (version by Jordi Savall)
Concert XLI à deux violes égales "Le Retour
Le Retour - En gigue - En menuet - En gigue En courante - Ballet tendre - En pianelle
MARIN MARAIS (1656 - 1728) Viola pieces from the 2nd book
Couplets from Folies d'Espagne
MARIN MARAIS Pièces de Viole from 4th book
La Rêveuse FRANÇOIS COUPERIN (1668 - 1733)
Les Concerts Royaux & Nouveaux Concerts Prélude, Gracieusement (2nd Concert)
Plainte pour les Violes, Lentement et douloureusement (10th Concert)
Muzettes I & II, Naïvement (3rd Concert)
MONSIEUR DE SAINTE-COLOMBE, LE PÈRE Concert XLIV à deux violes égales "Tombeau Les Regrets
Les Regrets - Quarrillon - Appel de Charon Les Pleurs - Joye des Elizées - Les Elizées
MARIN MARAIS
Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris - excerpt from La Gamme et Autres Morceaux de Symphonie, no. 3
