Marais: Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton & Benjamin Perrot

• Marin Marais (1656 - 1728): Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in E Minor:
• 1 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in E Minor: No. 96, Prélude 02:33
• 2 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in E Minor: No. 98, Allemande 02:24
• 3 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in E Minor: No. 101 Sarabande à l'Espagnol 03:12
• 4 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in E Minor: No. 102 Gigue 02:48
• 5 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in E Minor: No. 109, Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe 06:52
• 6 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in G Major: No. 82, Chaconne en rondeau 04:39
• 7 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Minor: No. 22, Prélude 02:00
• 8 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Minor: No. 19, Ballet en rondeau 04:45
• 9 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Minor: No. 40, La Polonoise 01:52
• 10 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Minor: No. 38, Cloches ou Carillon 04:51
• Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (ca. 1640 - ca. 1700): Concert XLIV, Tombeau Les Regrets:
• 11 Sainte-Colombe: Concert XLIV, Tombeau Les Regrets: Les Regrets - Carillon - Appel de Charon - Les Pleurs - Joie des Élysées - Les Élysées 05:50
• Marin Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in A Major:
• 12 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in A Major: No. 142, Fantaisie 04:46
• Robert de Visée (ca. 1650 - 1730): Chaconne in G Major:
• 13 Visée: Chaconne in G Major 05:27
• Marin Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in A Major:
• 14 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Minor: 11:04
• Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Major:
• 15 Marais: Pièces de viole, Book 2, Suite in D Major: No. 63, Les Voix humaines 03:36
• Total Runtime 01:06:39

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In this new album, Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot revisit the composer who gave their ensemble its delightful name, ‘La Rêveuse’. Drawing on his heritage (Sainte-Colombe), his friendships (Robert de Visée) and his own visionary genius, Marin Marais blazed new trails for his instrument in his second book of viol pieces (1701). Alongside the customary dances and sets of variations, he invented the ‘character pieces’ that were to become so popular in the eighteenth century.

La Reveuse:
Florence Bolton, Viola da gamba
Benjamin Perrot, Theorbo baroque guitar
Emily Audoin, Viola da gamba
Carsten Lohff, Harpsichord

La Reveuse
Founded by Benjamin Perrot and Florence Bolton, La Rêveuse is made up of solo musicians devoted to the artistic heritage of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ensemble keeps up a busy schedule all over France and performs regularly in such prestigious venues as the Théâtre de l’Athénée and the Auditorium de Radio France in Paris, the Scènes Nationales of Orléans, Blois and Quimper, and the Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne in Lyon; among the festivals in which it participates are La Folle Journée de Nantes, La Roque d’Anthéron, Chambord and the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier. Between 2018 and 2020, La Rêveuse also organised an annual tour in rural districts aboard the Opérabus, a bus transformed into a mobile concert hall, a project that won numerous awards. La Rêveuse also appears abroad, notably in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Japan, the United States and Canada.

The ensemble’s recordings have all been acclaimed by the French and international press and have received many distinctions, including ffff in Télérama, ‘Choc’ of the Year in Classica, the Bestenliste der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone. In 2017 La Rêveuse was awarded the gold medal of the Académie Arts-Sciences-Lettres for its career to date, followed in 2018 by the ‘European Cultural Heritage Year’ label awarded by the French Ministry of Culture and the ‘Leonardo Da Vinci, 500 years of RenaissanceS in the Centre - Loire Valley Region’ label for Leonardo Year 2019.

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