Rating: 5/5
Review:
Excellent Marais
I think this is excellent.
I was a little surprised by how good it was; I hadn't come across
Alberto Rasi before and there are already a lot of superb recordings by geniuses
of the gamba like Paolo Pandolfo, Jordi Savall and others. This disc stands very well among them.
Marais' music is lovely, often quite dark but full of
invention and interest. Rasi plainly
gets all this, and in addition brings a lovely fluency to the lines with a
subtle touch which really allows the music to glow, I think. It's perhaps a less introspective approach
than we may be used to, and I think it works very well indeed; Rasi has the
technique to make it all sound utterly natural and with excellent, resonant
recorded sound the effect is very beautiful.
Even if, like me, you already have a number of very fine
recordings of Marais this is well worth trying, and I can recommend it very
warmly.
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