Marin Marais - Pièces inédites pour flute (Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien)

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Composer: Marin Marais

• Pièce de viole, Livre 2, Suite No. 2 in D Minor: No. 40, La Polonoise
• Suite in E Minor
• Plainte in D Minor
• Suite in G Major
• Pièce de viole, Livre 2, Suite No. 3 in D Major: No. 63, Les Voix humaines
• Suite in C Major
• Pièce de viole, Livre 3, Suite No. 7 in G Major: No. 107, La guitare
• Pièce de viole, Livre 4, Suite d'un goût étranger: No. 73, Caprice ou sonate
• Suite in G Minor

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

    François Lazarevitch, transverse flute & musette

    Lucile Boulanger, viola da gamba

    Éric Bellocq, archlute & guitar

Date: 2025

Label: Alpha Classics

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While Marin Marais is best known for his works for viola da gamba, he also composed for the flute; Michael Lynn’s recent rediscovery of manuscripts containing pieces for flute and basso continuo as well as duets caught the attention of François Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, who now present the first recordings of these works. "This virgin territory did not open up to me straight away, and only did so after an ongoing exploration that took me more than a year... What is fascinating is that these pieces by Marais are not like anything already known in the flute repertoire; the flute at this period, around 1700, was still a very recent instrument”. To accompany the flute, François Lazarevitch has called on his long-standing partners Éric Bellocq (lute) and Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba), who also plays Les Voix humaines, one of the great masterpieces written for her instrument, chiming with the previously heard version of Les Voix humaines composed for the flute!

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