Chanson Discrete | Winter & Winter 9101242

Chanson Discrete

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Label: Winter & Winter

Cat No: 9101242

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 9th July 2007

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For Johann Jakob Froberger, discretion was actually a performance instruction: in many of his 'lamentos' and meditations on melancholy, he adds the comment "avec discrétion". When, around 1652, he wrote a musical memorial for his best friend the French lutenist Blancheroche, Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche, who had died from a tragic fall down a staircase, this final moment is depicted quite literally at the end by a rapid sequence of notes descending into nothing.
 
Froberger's wonderfully quirky subtitles often reveal private matters: Lamentation sur ce que j'ay été volé et se joue à la discrétion et encore mieux que les soldats m'ont traité [Lamentation on how I was robbed, to be played with more discretion than the soldiers showed to me]. The three more recent works, all written for this extraordinary interpreter, should also be regarded as 'discreet chansons'.

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