L'ame-son - Grénerin: Suites Française / Helstroffer

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Alpha
Release Date
August 25, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Henry Grenerin
    • PERFORMER
      Bruno Helstroffer, Chantal Santon Jeffery
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 25, 2023
    • UPC
      3701624510070
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1007
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prélude

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    3. III. Courante

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    4. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    5. V. Gigue

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    6. VI. Menuet

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    7. VII. Bourrée

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    8. I. Prelude

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    9. II. Allemande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    10. III. Courante

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    11. IV. Passacaille

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    12. V. Sarabande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    13. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    14. VII. Menuet

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    15. Airs de cour, Book 9: Je meurs sans mourir

      Composer: Antoine Boësset

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    16. I. Allemande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    17. II. Courante

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    18. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    19. IV. Gigue à la manière angloise

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    20. V. Menuet

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    21. VI. Passacaille

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    22. Ballet de la nuit, Part III: Récit de la Lune

      Composer: Jean de Cambefort

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    23. I. Prélude

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    24. II. Allemande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    25. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    26. IV. Courante

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    27. V. Sarabande

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    28. VI. Gigue aymable

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer

    29. Passacaille

      Composer: Henry Grénerin

      Performer: Bruno Helstroffer


It was in the second half of the sixteenth century that the guitar became fashionable in France: it was the instrument of the people, whereas the lute was associated with the intellectuals and the nobility. Henry Grenerin became a page (choirboy) in the Musique du Roi in 1641 and went on to invent a new way of playing the instrument and offer it music full of ‘freedom, mystery and ardour’, says Bruno Helstroffer. In the very first recording devoted to Grenerin’s music, Bruno revives this unjustly forgotten composer and makes the most of his long experience as both Baroque musician and exponent of today’s music. He became fascinated by this seventeenth-century composer, and his investigations led him to the Left Bank of the Seine, opposite the Louvre Palace, where Henry’s grandfather was a fisherman, hence the punning title L’âme-son [French hameçon = ‘fish-hook’, âme-son = ‘soul of sound’]. A saga that has also generated a book and a stage show about Grenerin – the first in the line of ‘guitar heroes’ that was to lead to Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix!