VIDEOSLuthiste: Performances on Lutes and Theorboes
Lully: “Le récit de la beauté”
Improvised Prelude
Discover this improvised prelude and air from “Le Mariage forcé”, the first collaboration between Molière and Lully, performed on 29 January 1664 at the request of Louis XIV.
With Apolline Raï-Westphal and the Ensemble Il Caravaggio under the direction of Camille Delaforge.
Handel: "Pena tiranna" (Dardano)
From the opera “Amadigi di Gaula”, HWV 11, Act 2.
Filippo Mineccia: Countertenor
Ensemble Les Affranchi.e.s
Anne Camillo and Hélène Decoin, violins; Céline Tison, viola; Pierre Charles, cello; Lilas Réglat, double bass; Benjamin Narvey, theorbo and baroque guitar; Martin Roux, oboe; Antoine Pecqueur, bassoon.
Psyché: The French Weiss
The Psyché album traces the idea of the French lute style from its founder, Ennemond “le Vieux” Gaultier, through Jacques Gallot and Robert de Visée and, critically, onwards to Germany and the "French" works of Weiss. A new perspective of Weiss is explored — one that is based on the rediscovered Harrach manuscript that contains Weiss's early compositions based on Gallot's magnificent "L'Amant malheureux." These pièces de luth of Weiss act as the central link that binds this baroque concept album together and help us to reposition current understanding of lute music during the baroque era.
Purcell: “They tell us that your mighty powers above”
Claire Debono: Soprano
Benjamin Narvey: Lute
They tell us that your mighty powers above (The Indian Queen Z.630). Henry Purcell (1658-1695).
Text by John Dryden (1631-1700).
Recorded with thanks at Royaumont Abbey & Foundation
Charpentier: “Auprès du feu l'on fait l'amour”
Claire Debono: Soprano
Benjamin Narvey: Theorbo
Auprès du feu l'on fait l'amour (H.446). Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 1704).
Recorded with thanks at Royaumont Abbey & Foundation
Haydn: Adagio from “Cassation per il Liuto Obligato, Violino & Violoncello”
Lute: Benjamin Narvey
Violin: Sabine Stoffer
Cello: Pierre-Augustin Lay
Courtesy of Kapellenkonzerte (Biglen, Switzerland)
Dandrieu: Adagio, from “Sonate en trio”
Ensemble Il Caravaggio
Anne Camillo: Violin
Fiona Emilie Poupard: Viola da gamba
Ronald Martin Alonso: Viola da gamba
Benjamin Narvey: Theorbo
Camille Delaforge: Organ and Direction
Sound recording: Olivier Rosset (Versailles Spectacles)
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Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
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