Baroque Chamber Music

Verbruggen (Artist), L'Ensemble Arion (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 1993)
• Label: Titanic
• ASIN: B00008FWMV
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,470,724 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Symphony en Quatuour

2. Sonata for flute & continuo in C major: Affetuoso

3. Sonata for flute & continuo in C major: Alla Breve

4. Sonata for flute & continuo in C major: Larghetto

5. Sonata for flute & continuo in C major: Vivace

6. Sonata a tre, for violin, cornett & continuo

7. Sonata for 2 instruments & continuo No. 4 (Sonata Concertate II/4)

8. Sonata in A minor

9. Sonata in F major: Largo

10. Sonata in F major: Poco Allegro

11. Sonata in F major: Andante

12. Sonata in F major: Vivace

13. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Ouverture

14. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Grande Ritournéle

15. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Air, Noblement

16. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Air, Tendre

17. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Air, Léger

18. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Loure

19. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Air, Animé

20. Huitième concert dans le goût théatral, for 2 instruments & continuo in G major (Les Goûts réunis): Sarabande, Grave

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2.0 out of 5 stars Fine playing, disappointing sound, July 17, 2005

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Leslie Richford (Selsingen, Lower Saxony) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baroque Chamber Music (Audio CD)

This recording from 1987 was L'Ensemble Arion's second. The quartet invited famous Dutch recorder player Marion Verbrüggen to join them in a session that covered baroque chamber music for flute and recorder from two centuries (17th and 18th) and from three countries (Italy, France and Germany). Of the pieces on this CD, I have only ever heard Couperin's Concert dans le gout theatral in other interpretations (Kuijkens, Gardiner), so it is a little difficult to assess the prowess of the musicians; my general impression was of fine playing that was made a little difficult to hear by Titanic's rather inferior recording technique in the empty Old Brick Church of West Brome, Ontario, with its obviously awkward acoustics. In the end, I found listening at a relatively low volume via headphones the best solution, but even so the sound was not good, and the basso continuo instruments seemed to be too far in the background, while Marion Verbrüggen's recorder occasionally reached shrill proportions - something that the technicians could and should have done something about.