Andreas Staier: Pour passer la melancolie
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMC902143
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 11th February 2013
Contents
Works
Pieces de clavecin, Book 1Pieces de clavecin, Book 1
Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand
Da Jesus an dem Creutze stundSuite in D minor 'Uranie' (Musicalischer Parnassus)
Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real Maesta di Ferdinando IV Re de Romani (Libro quarto)
Suite no.30 in A minor
Passacaglia in G minor
Artists
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)Works
Pieces de clavecin, Book 1Pieces de clavecin, Book 1
Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand
Da Jesus an dem Creutze stundSuite in D minor 'Uranie' (Musicalischer Parnassus)
Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real Maesta di Ferdinando IV Re de Romani (Libro quarto)
Suite no.30 in A minor
Passacaglia in G minor
Artists
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)About
"‘Why have all eminent men, whether philosophers, statesmen, poets or artists, so obviously been melancholics?’ This question forms the opening of a treatise attributed to Aristotle. The doctrine of the four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic) associates the melancholic with the most varied phenomena: the planet Saturn, the autumn (also in the sense of the autumn of life), twilight, cold, avarice, but also genius, geometry, and brooding profundity of thought. Albrecht Dürer condenses this multiplicity of motifs with extreme concentration in his celebrated and enigmatic engraving Melencolia I of 1514.
...I would like to thank Laurent Soumagnac for placing his wonderful harpsichord at my disposal for this disc, and Markus Fischinger for maintaining the instrument during the recording sessions. My very special gratitude goes to my friend and colleague Skip Sempé. He took the time for many inspiring conversations about French music of the seventeenth century." - Andreas Staier
French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4
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