Méditation: Les quatre saisons du luth

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Label
Arcana
Release Date
January 14, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Simone Vallerotonda
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 14, 2022
    • UPC
      3760195734964
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A496
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prélude in C Minor

      Composer: Charles Mouton

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    2. La belle Espagnole (Chaconne)

      Composer: Charles Mouton

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    3. Tombeau Mazarin (Allemande)

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    4. La belle Florentine (Sarabande)

      Composer: Charles Mouton

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    5. La mélancolique (Courante de Gaultier)

      Composer: Charles Mouton

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    6. La volage (Passacaille)

      Composer: Charles Mouton

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    7. La comete

      Composer: Jacques Gallot

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    8. Rondeau in G Minor

      Composer: Pierre Dubut le fils

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    9. Les Indes galantes, Act I: Le Turc généreux: Air pour les esclaves afriquains (arr. for lute)

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    10. L'enchantement

      Composer: Germain Pinel

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    11. Courante in G Minor

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    12. Prélude in D Minor

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    13. Allemande in D Minor

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    14. Courante - Courante

      Composer: Pierre Dubut

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    15. L'altesse royale (Sarabande)

      Composer: Jacques Gallot

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    16. Pieces de clavecin: Suite in D Minor - Major: I. Les tendres plaintes (arr. for lute)

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    17. Gique

      Composer: Valentin Strobel

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    18. La muzette (Rondeau)

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    19. Tombeau du vieux Gallot (Allemande)

      Composer: Robert de Visée

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    20. Courante la cigogne

      Composer: Jacques Gallot

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    21. Canarie les castagnettes

      Composer: Jacques Gallot

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    22. My Mistress Is Prettie (Branle de Mantoue)

      Composer: Charles Mouton

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda

    23. Pieces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre in B-Flat Major: Les Baricades misterieuses (arr. for lute)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Simone Vallerotonda


On his second solo album for Arcana, after L’Ultimo romano, Simone Vallerotonda explores the metaphysical and sensual world of seventeenth-century French lute music. The result is Méditation: four suites in four different keys, each associated with a season and with one of the four ‘humors’ (melancholic/autumn, sanguine/spring, phlegmatic/winter, choleric/summer) that were said to characterize human beings in their temperament and physical traits. An anatomy of the human soul, passing from the rarefied and reflective atmosphere of Charles Mouton’s prélude non mesuré through Jacques Gallot’s dizzying rondeaux, Valentin Strobel’s skipping, exotic canaries, the eulogies of Robert de Visée’s tombeaux, where the notes resonate like prayers and tears for the deceased, to the bizarre, asymmetrical courantes of Dubut le Père. A journey at the conclusion of which we find human beings described in their different and contrasting passions by means of music – music whose colors, though centuries old, portray them with extraordinary modernity.