The French composer Jean de Sainte-Colombe, teacher to Marin Marais, has remained a somewhat obscure figure despite the runaway success of the 1991 film Tous les matin du monde and its soundtrack featuring Jordi Savall. This may be because little is known of Sainte-Colombe's life; audiences like to have biographical details to hang their music on, and if Sainte-Colombe had speared himself in the foot with a baton like Lully, the situation might have been different. His obscurity certainly doesn't reflect any lack of ...
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The French composer Jean de Sainte-Colombe, teacher to Marin Marais, has remained a somewhat obscure figure despite the runaway success of the 1991 film Tous les matin du monde and its soundtrack featuring Jordi Savall. This may be because little is known of Sainte-Colombe's life; audiences like to have biographical details to hang their music on, and if Sainte-Colombe had speared himself in the foot with a baton like Lully, the situation might have been different. His obscurity certainly doesn't reflect any lack of quality in the music. These viola da gamba duos are endlessly inventive and absorbing. The album collects selections from a complete cycle of Sainte-Colombe's viol duos recorded by Les Voix Humaines in the mid-2000s decade. It's more conventional to have the single-disc anthology follow the complete cycle by less than 15 years later, but one may be thankful for the reappearance of these beautifully played short pieces in any form. Sample the amusingly titled "Quarrillon". Annotator...
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