Spectre de la Rose - Marin Marais, Sainte-Colombe: The Great Masterworks (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 340 Mb | Total time: 68:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550750 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 340 Mb | Total time: 68:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550750 | Recorded: 1993
Naxos have stepped in enterprisingly and chosen a programme that is not only most attractive in its own right, but which also includes the key items used in the fascinating film about the conjectural relationship between Marin Marais and his reclusive mentor, Sainte-Colombe (Tous les matins du monde). Spectre de la Rose consists of a first-rate group of young players, led by Alison Crum, who plays in a dignified but austere style which at first seems cool by which is very effective in this repertoire. Le Badinage is perhaps a little stiff and unsmiling, but the key item, Marais’s eloquent lament for his teacher, Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, is restrained and touching. Good, bright, forward recording, vividly declaiming the plangent viola da gamba timbre.