Watteau: The Music Lesson - Charpentier, Campra, Lully, Rebel, Vivaldi, Locatelli, Corelli, Couperin, Rameau, Clérambault, Marais,...

Campra, André, Charpentier, Marc-Antoine, Corelli, Arcangelo, Couperin, François, Locatelli, Pietro Antonio, Lully, Jean-Baptiste, Rameau, Jean-Philippe, Rebel, Jean-Féry, różni kompozytorzy, Vivaldi, Antonio

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Banchini, Chiara, Christie, William, Ensemble 415, Jacobs, René, O'Dette, Paul, Rousset, Christophe, Steger, Maurice

HML 5908535.36

The fête galante in Watteau (1684-1721) is very much a musical celebration. With a presence in no less than a third of his pictures, music holds an essential place in the painter’s œuvre. Observed with the precision of a connoisseur, it is firmly rooted in the reality of the concerts of his time, the better to nurture the amorous discourse of the paintings and merge into their mystery. As a poetic element, it enriches the meaning with its allusive power, suggesting a sound-world blending the strains of musette, cornett, violin, guitar, and the human voice. One must first learn to see these sounds before hearing them. • This CD-book, released to coincide with the exhibition ‘Watteau, la leçon de musique’ at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, invites you to listen to the music in Watteau’s work with the help of numerous visual and audio examples.

Works:

• Rameau: Concert No. 1 in C minor
• Rameau: Concert No. 2 in G major
• Rameau: Concert No. 3 in A major
• Scarlatti, A: Il primo omicidio
• Stradella: Fuor della Stigia sponda
• Locatelli: Concerto IX a quattro en Ré majeur
• Marais, M: Suite en mi mineur: VIII. Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
• Couperin, F: Deuxième Livre de Pièces de clavecin. Onzième ordre
• Marais, M: Suite en Ré majeur: I. Prélude
• Stradella: Fuor della Stigia sponda
• Corelli: Sonata No. 5 in G Minor

CD x 2

Harmonia Mundi

2/20/13

3149020853559