3701624511268

Voix Humaines. Marais: Pieces Inedites Pour Flute

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien; Francois Lazarevitch; Lucile Boulanger; Eric Bellocq

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Format: CD

Cat No: ALPHA1126

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Release Date:  28 March 2025

Label:  Outhere / Alpha

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3701624511268

Genres:  Classical  Early Music  

Composer/Series:  Voix humaines. Marais

  • Description

    While Marin Marais is best known for his works for viola da gamba, he also composed for the flute; Michael Lynn's recent rediscovery of manuscripts containing pieces for flute and basso continuo as well as duets caught the attention of Francois Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, who now present the first recordings of these works. "This virgin territory did not open up to me straight away, and only did so after an ongoing exploration that took me more than a year... What is fascinating is that these pieces by Marais are not like anything already known in the flute repertoire; the flute at this period, around 1700, was still a very recent instrument". To accompany the flute, Francois Lazarevitch has called on his long-standing partners Eric Bellocq (lute) and Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba), who also plays Les Voix humaines, one of the great masterpieces written for her instrument, chiming with the previously heard version of Les Voix humaines composed for the flute!