Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
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Boismortier: Sonatas, Op. 34
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Boismortier: 6 Sonatas for 2 Pardessus de viole, Op. 63
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Famous Flute Concertos / Jean-Pierre Rampal
Boismortier: Sonatas, Op. 34
Boismortier: 6 Sonatas for 2 Pardessus de viole, Op. 63
Boismortier: Les Quatre Saisons
Boismortier: The Court And The Village Chamber Music
Boismortier: Sette Sonata per fagotto e continuo
Boismortier, J.B.: Flute Sonatas, Op. 91, Nos. 1-6
Boismortier: Sonates, Cantates & Suites
Simple Pleasures, Hidden Treasures
SONATES POUR VIOLON, OP. 20
Boismortier: Sonates a deux violes, Op. 10 / Les Deux Violes
Pehrsson, Clas: Music For Recorder Ensemble
Boismortier / Schickhardt / Telemann: Recorder Music
BOISMORTIER: Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, Op. 91
Les Gouts Réunis
DON QUIXOTE AT THE DUCHESS
The Golden Hour - French Baroque Violin & Viol Music / Boulanger, Pierre, Fortin
We are around the time of the Regency, at the political crossroads between Louis XIV and Louis XV. The viola da gamba was enjoying its last hours of glory in France, while the violin was beginning to take centre stage. The Golden Hour, which generally refers to the periods after sunrise and before sunset when the light changes, evokes here those years of convergence, even confrontation, between a viola da gamba in the twilight of its life and a violin at the dawn of its soloist destiny.
Boismortier: Sonates pour Viole, Op. 50 (Paris 1734) / Les deux Violes
We are taking the liberty of also performing op. 50 as a solo on the viola da gamba. In his title, Boismortier writes: „Pour les Violoncelles, Bassons ou Violes“. We have kept to that. He was practical and versatile – and so are we.
Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse / Niquet, Le concert spirituel
In 1743, two years before Rameau’s Platée, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap “comic ballet”, Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes’ hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people from Japan, making for plenty of offbeat and audacious dances and choruses. Musical beauty rubs shoulders with satirical and irreverent comedy. A choice work for Hervé Niquet, who leads his Concert Spirituel with unparalleled energy!
Boismortier: Winds in Versailles / I Fiori Musicali
The baroque ensemble I Fiori Musicali has chosen Urania Records for their newest production, a collection dedicated to Boismortier. The name of this composer comes after the decline of the great explosion of French artists of the golden age of Louis XIV. He is not comparable to Lully, Couperin or Rameau, but he expresses a whole part of the early French Englightenment and he fights against the school by Rousseau. This album brings available some of the lesser-known but more refined works of the French composer. The ensemble plays on period instruments and follows the proper timeline of Boismortier's compositions.
Boismortier: Sonatas & Trios / Le Petit Trianon
An agreeable musician, clever, sociable, a shaper of verse, a man of wit whose sallies were greatly appreciated and whose fertile pen was guaranteed to turn out another volume of works every month, Boismortier was the perfect man of his time, courteous, cultured and able to adapt to his surroundings. In this, their first recording, Le Petit Trianon have chosen pieces from his immense body of work that felicitously blend the sonorities of the flute, violin, bassoon, cello and harpsichord.
Boismortier: Don Quichotte Chez La Duchesse / Niquet, Et Al
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Boismortier: Concertos for 5 Flutes / Stephen Schultz
Stephen Schultz takes on the daunting task of playing all five parts of these Concerti for Five Flutes from Boismortier - a feat never before attempted or accomplished! The French composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier wrote a great deal of popular music. The transverse flute was his favorite instrument and he considerably extended its repertory. Boismortier's music demonstrates great facility, and one regrets that he wrote so few works on a large scale.
Boismortier: Ballets De Village, Sérénade / Concert Sprituel

Joseph Boismortier was a French Baroque composer who had to live by his wits, having no patrons or prestigious positions. The notes for this CD quote Jean-Benjamin's assessment in 1780: "Happy is he, Boismortier, whose fertile quill each month, without pain, conceives new airs at will." Boismortier, for lack of a better answer to his critics, would always answer: "I am earning money." His four Ballets de Village are rustic suites that make extensive use of the musette and hurdy-gurdy, instruments considered country cousins, not to be used in "serious" music. Boismortier writes for them with great skill; the droning din they set up is most appealing. This is joyous music, which at times, especially at the beginning to Cinquième gentillesse, is reminiscent of Handel's Water Music. The Serenade is a more "serious" composition. Though it uses folk dances and dance rhythms it omits the rustic instruments, retaining pairs of flutes and oboes as the wind compliment.
All of this delightful music is performed with verve and finesse by the musicians of Le Concert Spirituel, and it's recorded in spacious sound that imparts a feeling of the great outdoors or a meeting hall without muddying any of the exquisite instrumental textures. This is the second CD of Boismortier's music that this ensemble has recorded for Naxos. Let's hope that soon these superb musicians will address the composer's masterpiece: Daphnis et Chloé.
-- Rad Bennett, ClassicsToday.com
