羅伯.德.維則: 低音大魯特琴獨奏作品集
雅克伯.林柏格 低音大魯特琴
Elegant music by Louis XIV's favorite lutenist
12 years a)er his album en1tled ‘Italian Virtuosi of the Chitarrone' (BIS-1899), Jakob Lindberg returns to his magnificent theorbo, specially built for him by the luthier Michael Lowe, based on an instrument preserved in the Musee de la Musique in Paris. One of the most spectacular instruments of the early baroque owing to its length and great number of strings, the theorbo was originally designed to accompany the voice, but is also ideally suited to solo performance. For this disc, Lindberg has chosen pieces by Robert de Visee, one of the great French masters of the lute, theorbo and guitar repertoire and a favourite of Louis XIV. The recording features dances as well as character pieces, including a moving ‘Plainte' in memory of his two deceased daughters. It also includes de Visee's arrangements of composi1ons by Lully, Couperin and Purcell as well as his own version of Les Folies d'Espagne, a very popular chord progression that inspired so many composers of his 1me. Jakob Lindberg writes: ‘I can't help but be seduced by the grace of the instrument's lines, the resonance of its sonori1es, and by the unmistakably French elegance of this remarkable composer.'
Robe rt de Visee (c. 166 0 —c. 1733)
1 —7 ) Suite in A minor 13''41
Prelude · Allemande ‘La Royalle'' · Courante · Sarabande Gavotte · Rondeau ‘La Mascarade'' · Chaconne
8 —12 ) Suite in D major 10''18
Prelude · Allemande · Courante · Sarabande · Gigue
1 3 —17 ) Pieces in D minor 12''13
Prelude · Entree d''Apollon (Jean-Baptiste Lully) · Air Contredance La Furstemberg (Henry Purcell) · Passacaille
1 8 —19 ) Pieces in C minor 5''28
Prelude · La Plainte or Tombeau des Mesdemoiselles de Visee
20—24 ) Pieces in G major 16''52
Prelude · Entree des Espagnolles (Jean-Baptiste Lully) Les Sylvains (Francois Couperin) · Muse tte · Chaconne
25—31 ) Suite in E minor 15''07
Prelude · Allemande · Courante · Sarabande Gigue / Double · Gavotte · Rondeau ‘La Montfermeil''
32 ) Folies d''Espagne in A minor 3''58
Jakob Lindberg Theorbo by Michael Lowe, Woo tton-by-Woodstock 1979 (tuned to a =392 Hz)