Joseph Marchand: Suites
{oh!} trio
AP301 - 3CD - 156' - Mar 10, 2023

In 1707 Joseph Marchand published his seven Suites de pièces mêlée[s] de sonates pour le violon et la basse. Now completely forgotten, Marchand was one of the king’s musicians under Louis XIV, playing the basse de violon in the prestigious Chapelle Royale, the 24 Violons and the Petits Violons du Roi. He was renowned as a teacher, and as a musician he was gifted with a “very singular playing style”. His suites were the first in the repertoire to make use of the perilous double trill. In some respects, his music bears witness to the Italianisation of musical tastes, but in the sheer abundance of his musical ideas, the beauty of his harmonies, his virtuosity, particularly in the bass parts, and his concern for the balance of forms and voices, Marchand is not so much an epigone as an heir to the art of Marin Marais, Sainte-Colombe or François Couperin.
Playing the violin, the pardessus de viole (the highest-pitched member of the viol family), the positive organ, the viola da gamba or the harpsichord, the {oh!} trio – Martyna Pastuszka and Krzysztof and Anna Firlus – revive here a gem of the early eighteenth century, with all its poetry and refinement of expression.


JOSEPH MARCHAND Suites de pièces mêlée de sonates pour le violon et la basse

CD1

Première Suite in A
1. Fantaisie
2. Sonate I lentement
3. Vite
4. Rondeau tendrement
5. Vite 
6. Air grave
7. Gavotte tendrement
8. Air gay

Deuxième Suite in B
9. Sonate lentement 
10. Vite. Lentement 
11. Rondeau gay 
12. Vite
13. Air louré
14. Air gay
15. Dessein de basse

Troisième Suite in C
16. Allemande*
17. Sarabande
18. Rondeau
19. Air lent*
20. Première et deuxième gavottes*

CD2

Quatrième Suite in D
1. Sonate
2. Fugue
3. Adagio
4. Air tendre
5. Air gay
6. Air par accords lentement
7. Air vite 

Cinquième Suite in E
8. Sonate
9. Fugue
10. Air I 
11. Air II*
12. Gigue 
13. Air tendre
14. Air gay
15. Air vite*

*with Jan Čižmář Baroque lute

CD3

Sixième Suite in F
1. Sonate
2. Fugue
3. Air I
4. Air II
5. Vivement
6. Allemande
7. Prélude ou dessein de basse
8. Chaconne
9. Sicilienne

Septième Suite in G
10. Sonate
11. Air tendre
12. Rondeau
13. Allemande
14. Air grave
15. Rondeau et double
16. Air tendre lentement
17. Chaconne

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