Alice Julien-Laferrière – Il genio inglese (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:53 minutes | 1,3 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
The figure of prodigiously gifted violinist Nicola Matteis looms large in this program featuring composers active in Restoration England. Transplanted from his native Italy to London, he was one of a host of artists and performers from across Europe who flocked to the city and made a crucial impact on the country’s musical culture. The artistry of Alice Julien-Laferrière and the members of the ensemble Ground Floor, demonstrates that this sumptuous and sonically seductive repertoire from the middle of the 17th century can truly hold it’s own against the work of later masters.
In addition to the artistry it has imposed on the arts, the Baroque era was an impassioned, bubbling cauldron which shook Europe by forming interactions around the entire continent. Different creative paths crossed and recrossed propagating a positive epidemic of good sense and spirit. This incessant coming and going between people and musicians is exploited by French ensemble Ground Floor who have given themselves the mission of bringing back music’s transformative and interrogative strength through works conceived in basso continuo, the beating heart of a human voice and, like in this album, a reigning violin at an English court personified here by the violinist Alice Julien-Laferrière.
Neapolitan composer and violinist Nicolas Matteis arrived in England when the newly anointed king wished to imitate the royal chapel of Louis XIV in Versailles. The violin was then entirely new in the United Kingdom where the consort of viols still reigned supreme. It is this transitional period which is evoked in this work with Matteis’ latin music as he invents his own “genio inglese” inspired by popular dances, from music heard in salons to this varied nature that the Neapolitan discovered through traversing, as he says, Europe on foot. As the musicians themselves put it, this work can act as an antidote to Brexit while being a declaration of admiration for Great Britain. – François Hudry
Tracklist
1. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Lachrime Pavaen
2. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Ground in D ʻper far la manoʼ
3. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in B-Flat: I. Preludio
4. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in B-Flat: II. Alemanda
5. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in B-Flat: III. Burlesca
6. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in B-Flat: IV. Pavana armoniosa
7. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in B-Flat: V. Il Russignolo
8. Ground Floor – Guitar Suite: I. Preludio
9. Ground Floor – Guitar Suite: II. Minuet
10. Ground Floor – Guitar Suite: III. Jigg
11. Ground Floor – Guitar Suite: IV. Sarabanda
12. Ground Floor – Guitar Suite: V. Jigg. Adagio
13. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in E Minor: I. Pavan
14. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in E Minor: II. Almand
15. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in E Minor: III. Courante
16. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in E Minor: IV. Ayre
17. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in E Minor: V. Saraband
18. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in E Minor: VI. Jigg
19. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: I. Passaggio Rotto
20. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: II. Adagio
21. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: III. Movimento incognito
22. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: IV. Alamande
23. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: V. Sarabanda amorosa
24. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: VI. Andamento
25. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in A Minor: VII. Gavotte
26. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: I. Ouverture
27. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: II. Farowel
28. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: III. Air
29. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: IV. Jigg
30. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: I. Preludio in delasolré terza maggiore
31. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: II. Andamento
32. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: III. Allemande
33. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: IV. Corrente
34. Alice Julien-Laferrière – Suite in D Minor: V. Aria
35. Alice Julien-Laferrière – A division upon a ground in F
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