Morel: Premier Livre de pièces de violle

French Baroque chamber music by a much-admired contemporary of Marin Marais.

In a personal introduction to his own authoritative booklet essay, the Spanish violist Alejandro Marías relates how he acquired the rare facsimile of an even rarer manuscript, and came to realise that its contents had never seen the light of day in the modern era, let alone received attention on record. Thus he presents here the First Book of pieces – a second does not survive – by Jacques Morel.

Composer: Jacques Morel
Artists: Alejandro Marías viola da gamba La Spagna

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The volume itself was published in 1709, two years before Marin Marais’s Third Book of pieces. Morel’s date of birth is now obscured by time, but we know that he was this book. And indeed Morel makes no a pupil of Marais, to whom he dedicated attempt to disguise the debt he felt to his master within his music.

The book contains four Suites for viola da gamba and continuo – in A minor, D minor, D major and G major, respectively – and a Chaconne en trio for a traverso flute, viol and basso continuo. This gentle and courtly six-minute Chaconne is the only piece of Morel’s that is regularly performed, but the four Suites are full of delightful discoveries. The second of them begins with a Prelude of bold and grave gestures which introduce a colourful suite of character pieces: the Allemande la Jolie (‘The pretty one’), the Courante la Dacier, a gentle, dream-like Sarabande and the Gigue l’Inconstante (‘The faithless one’). To end, there is an enjoyable rondeau, Le Folet (‘The imp’), and La Fanchonnette, reminiscent of a gavotte in feel and structure.


Tracklist:
00:00:00 Suite No. 1 in A Minor: I. Prélude. Lentement – Vîte
00:03:47 Suite No. 1 in A Minor: II. Allemande
00:05:47: Suite No. 1 in A Minor: III. Courante
00:07:42 No. 1 in A Minor: IV. Sarabande l’agréable
00:11:14 No. 1 in A Minor: V. Gigue
00:12:25 No. 1 in A Minor: VI. La bretonne. Gratieusement
00:15:50 No. 1 in A Minor: VII. Menuets I & II
00:17:55: No. 2 in D Minor: I. Prélude
00:19:59 No. 2 in D Minor: II. Allemande la jolie
00:21:58 No. 2 in D Minor: III. Courante la dacier
00:23:27 No. 2 in D Minor: IV. Sarabande
00:26:31 No. 2 in D Minor: V. Gigue l’inconstante
00:27:45 No. 2 in D Minor: VI. Le follet
00:30:01 No. 2 in D Minor: VII. La fanchonette
00:30:53 No. 3 in D Major: I. Prélude
00:33:22 No. 3 in D Major: II. Boutade de Sainct Germain
00:34:20 No. 3 in D Major: III. Allemande la brillante & double
00:37:15 No. 3 in D Major: IV. Courante
00:38:41 No. 3 in D Major: V. Sarabande l’Aurore
00:40:47 No. 3 in D Major: VI. Gigue à l’anglaise
00:42:15 No. 3 in D Major: VII. Gavotte
00:43:18 No. 3 in D Major: VIII. Fugue. Gayment
00:46:20 No. 3 in D Major: Échos de Fontainebleau
00:48:21 No. 4 in G Major: I. Prélude. Lentement
00:50:21 No. 4 in G Major: II. Fantaisie. Gayement
00:51:19 No. 4 in G Major: III. Allemande
00:52:48 No. 4 in G Major: IV. Courante
00:54:25 No. 4 in G Major: V. Sarabande
00:56:45 No. 4 in G Major: VI. Gigue à l'italienne
00:58:05 No. 4 in G Major: VII. Rondeau dauphin
01:02:23 No. 4 in G Major: VIII. Menuet
01:03:01 No. 4 in G Major: IX. La guerandoise & double
01:04:16 Chaconne en trio in G Major

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