
Apart from his justifiably renowned signature piece, Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris, Marin Marais’ Suite d’un goût étranger (Suite in Foreign Taste
I am not ordinarily a fan of the viola da gamba, particularly its lower register, which easily comes to sound like a dying cow. The
This disc is “authentic” in two senses: in the selection of instruments as well as in the arrangement of the works for domestic performance. Actually,
More than any other musician of our time Jordi Savall has championed Marin Marais in the concert hall and recording studio–and he even was largely
Although viola da gamba players no longer enjoy the fame and respected positions they held during the 17th century when composer/gamba virtuoso Marin Marais served
Lest one go through life thinking that Baroque music was only about pure, noble, and elevated thoughts and events, this collection will provide quite another