Jean-Adam Guilain and Jacques Morel are two little-known composers of music lovers that Thomas Ospital honors in the company of the Saint-Honoré ensemble. A very timely opportunity to discover these masters and some mysteries around them.
In the tail of the comet Louis Marchand, composer organist of the king, Jean-Adam Guilain shines with the organ of a particular shine that hoists him at the level of the best Organ books of his time. This is a musical enigma that several musicologists and historians have tried to disentangle, without providing irrefutable evidence. Johann Adam Wilhelm Brakeberg was born in the German Holy Empire around 1680. He came and settled in France in 1702. He took the Francisée de Jean-Adam Guilain. He linked to the organist Louis Marchand who is thought to be his pupil. His life remains enigmatic until they question his own existence or at least the fatherhood of his cediders. In addition, a Book for the harpsichord He is assigned and writing less than that for the organ.
However, the work with its Magnificat is there and she is very beautiful. Indeed the Book is built like those of his contemporaries in Suites of movements, here designed to alternate with the song of Magnificat. Some verses are particularly successful and can compete with the most beautiful compositions of his contemporaries. It is only to listen to the Tierce story in sizesecond verse from the Continuation of the 2nd toneto convince himself of the very fabric of the author’s pen. Some could have argued that Louis Marchand had guided him in this art of composition and somewhat held hands, which is likely.
Thomas Ospital addresses these pieces with a great nobility of play, in osmosis with acoustics generously captured by François Eckert where everything is revealed and unfolds with strength and refinement. Here the verses of Suites are presented without the alternation of the plain-chant, which is not compulsory, the pieces are sufficient by themselves by the beauty of their writing. Thus various mixtures of the classical French organ are successively heard with great appeal: full game, duo, trio, trumpet bass, quartet, flutes, human voice, cromorne and third in size, large game …
We will notice the existence of a Four in the Continuation of the 4th tone In memory of that of Marchand. This is a rare piece in the various Livres organized which allows you to hear four different sounds at the same time, which is a very particular effect and very pleasant to the ear. The great theorist and organ factor François Dom Bédos of those gives several registration possibilities in a chapter of his famous treaty.
A contemporary composer of Guilain is present on this CD, it is Jacques Morel, musician at the court and in the wake of Marin Marais. Violist himself, he writes for his instrument several Suites for Viole of which certain movements are of a desired writing. There Chaconne in trio of suite n ° 4developed recalls these beautiful obstinate dance movements that so many composers have used in their works. Thus presented the works of Jacques Morel serve alternately to Guilain pieces, thus finding a balance in their declamation. The Saint-Honoré ensemble around Sacha Lévy with the Viole Solo and Valentin Rouget in management allow us to discover in a happy way the music of Jacques Morel, fallen unjustly in oblivion.
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