Rating: 5/5
Review:
Terrific stuff from Trio Sonnerie
This is a very fine disc of French baroque chamber
music. Marais and Forqueray, of course,
were two of the greatest French composers of the period and Trio Sonnerie do
them proud here.
The music itself is very rewarding and extremely
enjoyable. Both Marais and Forqueray
were real masters of composition for a small ensemble and we get plenty of
melodic and harmonic invention here, as well as a very pleasing overall effect. Forqueray's musical portraits of some of his composing
contemporaries and other characters are always a pleasure, and the Marais suite
from which the disc takes its name is quite remarkable in its scale and
brilliance.
Trio Sonnerie are a favourite ensemble of mine. I love Monica Huggett's work, and her fellow
musicians are both brilliant, too, with a string of terrific recordings to
their names. Their playing is as good as
I would expect: technically superb and with a depth of understanding both of
the music and of each other which lends this real meaning throughout. It's just very classy chamber playing by
three really good musicians and I find it a pleasure form beginning to end.
Linn, of course, make a wonderful job of the recorded sound
which is delightfully clear, rich and well balanced, and the presentation and
notes are excellent. This is a terrific
disc all round and I can recommend it very warmly.
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