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Sainte-Colombe: Concerts à deux violes esgales, Vol. 1

6/17/2022, 23 Tracks, 1:05:02

Featuring

  • Paolo Biordi
  • Francesco Tomei
  • Jean de Sainte-Colombe

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Composer Biography

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, the composer of these Concerts, has a largely mysterious biography, with his birth and death dates, and even his first name, unknown.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sainte-Colombe's music is noted for its extraordinary imagination, originality, and technical difficulty, departing from the Lully-like classicism popular at the time.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Concerts on this album feature typically French titles that hint at their musical characteristics or specific circumstances of their creation or transcription.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

The performers on this album have scrupulously followed the original manuscript, respecting the composer's unique stylistic choices.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Despite being a renowned teacher, Sainte-Colombe's compositions were explicitly underrated by some contemporaries, with one writer in 1752 stating he 'was no composer'.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Almost nothing was known of Sainte-Colombe's music until 1966, when a manuscript collection of 67 Concerts à deux violes esgales was discovered in Geneva.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Sainte-Colombe is credited with introducing the seventh string to the viol, which expanded the instrument's bass range by a fourth.

Source: Booklet

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