Pierre Gallon - Blancrocher - L'Offrande (2020)
Pierre Gallon - Blancrocher - L'Offrande (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 462 MB | Tracks: 25 | 77:40 min
Style: Classical | Label: L'encelade
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 462 MB | Tracks: 25 | 77:40 min
Style: Classical | Label: L'encelade
The programme for Pierre Gallon’s new record enjoys the high patronage of a gentleman who was famous in Parisian musical circles in the first half of the 17th century, a certain Charles Fleury Sieur de Blancrocher (1605-1652). Although he was much admired as a lutenist in his own time, he never took the instrument up professionally.
We know relatively little about his life - merely that he became friends with the harpsichordist Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)… and then that he died in rather comical circumstances, falling down his own stairs in the aforesaid Mr Froberger’s presence. Finally, he has left us a single piece, for the lute - L’Offrande (The Offering), which is to be found in two major sources from the period.
When Blancrocher died no fewer than four composers each wrote a “tombeau” - a tribute piece - in memory of the lutenist. Froberger and Louis Couperin’s pieces were written for the harpsichord, whereas Dufaut and Denis Gaultier’s were for the lute. Although fairly different, all four are wonderful; indeed each of them is a major piece in its composer’s body of work, so the idea is to bring these four tombeaux together on record for the first time. They are the four cornerstones upon which the programme as a whole rests, and then laid out around them there will be various other pieces which are formally more conventional (preludes, dance suites, fantasias, etc.) composed by the same four composers in Paris in the 1650s.
Although Couperin and Froberger both composed for the harpsichord, Gaultier and Dufaut were both lutenists, and so Pierre Gallon has transcribed their pieces on the record for the harpsichord, as people might have done at the time. Finally, the programme comes full circle by - quite literally - inviting Mr de Blancrocher to attend his own tribute, as the lutenist Diego Salamanca performs Blancrocher’s Allemande.
Tracklist:
01. Prélude en ré
02. Tombeau de Mr Blanrocher
03. Courante
04. Sarabande & Double
05. Gigue
06. Gavotte
07. Tombeau fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche
08. Fantasia
09. Tocade
10. Fantasia
11. Lais larmes de Gauttier ou Le Tombeau de Blanrocher
12. Prélude à l'imitation de Mr Froberger
13. Allemande faite à Paris
14. Courante
15. Sarabanda
16. Gigue
17. Prélude
18. Sarabande
19. Fantaisies
20. Gigue
21. Prélude en fa
22. Allemande Grave
23. Courante
24. Tombeau de Mr de Blancrocher
25. L'Offrande, allemande de Blanrocher
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Size: 21393692 Hash: 48EB8E4C4825FBE4C9BEE853213FD16F Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 92%
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FILE: 02. Tombeau de Mr Blanrocher.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 03. Courante.flac
Size: 13150417 Hash: F2F6AA0E7478D3768D3DA4D2149C7B14 Accuracy: -m0
Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 04. Sarabande & Double.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 58%
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FILE: 05. Gigue.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 06. Gavotte.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 99%
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FILE: 07. Tombeau fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 08. Fantasia.flac
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FILE: 09. Tocade.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 11. Lais larmes de Gauttier ou Le Tombeau de Blanrocher.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 43%
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FILE: 12. Prélude à l'imitation de Mr Froberger.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 58%
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FILE: 13. Allemande faite à Paris.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 54%
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FILE: 14. Courante.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 15. Sarabanda.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 58%
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FILE: 16. Gigue.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 17. Prélude.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 85%
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FILE: 18. Sarabande.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 19. Fantaisies.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 76%
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FILE: 20. Gigue.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 21. Prélude en fa.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 22. Allemande Grave.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 92%
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FILE: 23. Courante.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 100%
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FILE: 24. Tombeau de Mr de Blancrocher.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 42%
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FILE: 25. L'Offrande, allemande de Blanrocher.flac
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Conclusion: CDDA 87%
Signature: 5F657BD8B2A77812876A8102A81D14A078541523