Marc Mauillon, Christian Rivet, Les Joueurs de Traverse – Traveling Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:28 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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A musical journey through Renaissance Europe via pieces that were highly popular and whose melodies were reused and varied by some of the best composers of the time.
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Anna Schivazappa, Pizzicar Galante, Marc Mauillon – Un Air d’Italie. The Mandolin in Paris in the 18th Century (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:03 minutes | 2,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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As an instrument from Italy, one that was exotic and evocative of Mediterranean atmospheres, the mandolin was very much in fashion in France until the end of the Century of Enlightenment: a fact also confirmed by many iconographic and musical sources. Pizzicar Galante, an ensemble that stands today as a benchmark for the interpretation of the galant literature for mandolin and continuo, has been acclaimed for the “finesse, creativity and spirit” (Olivier Fourés, Diapason) and “communicative energy” of its performances (Sébastien Llinares, France Musique). For its second recording with Arcana, it offers a compilation of the finest music played during the veritable “golden age” enjoyed by the mandolin in Paris from the 1760s to the Revolution. It is a rare and unexplored repertoire in which the dazzling virtuosity of Anna Schivazappa, a specialist in historical mandolins, dialogues with the beguiling and charismatic voice of Marc Mauillon.
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Marc Mauillon, VivaBiancaLuna Biffi, Pierre Hamon – Guillaume de Machaut (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:19:04 minutes | 3,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ce triptyque consacré à la musique de Guillaume de Machaut est important à plus d’un titre : d’abord L’Amoureus tourment marque le premier enregistrement du jeune Marc Mauillon, qui fait depuis une carrière exemplaire et pas seulement dans la musique ancienne. Ensuite chaque volume a reçu les récompenses les plus importantes, à commencer par le “Diapason d’Or de l’année” en 2008 pour Le Remède de Fortune. Enfin, cette musique si vivante sept siècles après sa création, est portée par un ensemble de musiciens qui ont, chacun dans leur domaine, contribué à sa résurrection au plus haut niveau, au premier rang desquels Angélique Mauillon à la harpe, Pierre Hamon aux flûtes et Vivabiancaluna Biffi à la vièle.
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Marc Mauillon, Myriam Rignol, Thibaut Roussel, Marouan Mankar-Bennis – Lambert: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:44:29 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Classical
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Best known as the composer of three hundred serious airs, Michel Lambert (1610-1696) wrote two full cycles of lessons, both transcribed in an unsigned and undated collection of manuscripts. The first cycle, recorded in its entirety here for the first time, was written in a cursive script, which reproduces as faithfully as possible the vocal ornamentation with all its rhythmic subtleties, but which also retains a few uncertainties when it comes to the placement of chords for the basso continuo. It demands that the musician undertake a detailed work of reconstruction and minute adjustments, alongside an intimate understanding of the soul of this music which inhabits the border separating the sacred from the profane. Under the reign of Louis XIV, Lambert’s Leçons de Ténèbres were associated with ceremonies where the court took part in public acts of worship. Contemporary accounts tell us that they were performed by three female singers during the Tenebrae, but Marc Mauillon and his three instrumentalists (viola da gamba, theorbo and positive organ) here offer us a version of male voice, taking into account that Lambert himself must have sung them – the score, while not handwritten, is rather more an aide-mémoire than a version ready to play – and he also sang his own airs de cour. He probably also provided the musical accompaniment – probably on theorbo – alongside viola and theorbo player Nicolas Hotman, from whom our performers have chosen a few instrumental pieces, which serve as preludes, postludes, meditations or respirations between Leçons, which at the time would have formed a part of three liturgical performances in the three days before Easter. While the experience on offer here is different from that which was originally intended for these pieces, it is still certainly worth a listen, not least for the meditative state into which it will plunge the listener.
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Marc Mauillon, Angélique Mauillon, Myriam Rignol – Je m’abandonne à vous (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:58 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
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Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de La Suze, was more than just a woman of letters admired in her time, even by the very demanding Boileau. It was as a free woman that she married for love; after the death of her husband, a second one was forced on her, but, still a free woman, she demanded to be ‘de-married’! Surrounded by expert musicians, Marc Mauillon shows us that her précieux poetic universe mixes tenderness with the most unexpected strokes of audacity, so much so that her verse inspired many composers of the Grand Siècle – and after!
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Marc Mauillon & Anne Le Bozec – Fauré et ses poètes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:09 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Singing French mélodie necessitates the singer to strike a difficult balance between a perfect diction making the text which has been put to music intelligible, as well as getting the right tone of expression, being careful it doesn’t descend into preciosity. Thanks to a certain melodic line, Marc Mauillon is both tenor and baritone: he thus counts an enormous repertoire from the baroque era all the way through to today’s music. This Fauré recital is a veritable delight thanks to all of these combined qualities, to which the French singer adds his clear and touching timbre.
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Marc Mauillon, Angélique Mauillon – Li Due Orfei (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:09 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Florence, 1600: Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri, two virtuoso singers and rival composers. Striving to rediscover the expressive powers of ancient Greek tragedy, they revolutionized the art of singing and created a new style, which eventually would give birth to opera. In reaction to Renaissance polyphony, these monodies were intended to be sung with the simple accompaniment of a plucked instrument in order to express the full range of human passions. Peri and Caccini would often accompany themselves but they would also perform with certain family members. Thus brother and sister in this duo follow most naurally a tradition passed on by those great musicians.
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Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Ensemble les Surprises, Marie Perbost, Marc Mauillon – An Unexpected Mozart (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:10:18 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Unfamiliar Mozart: Always curious about unjustly neglected repertoire, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas introduces us here to a Mozart we have not met. Above and beyond his church sonatas, works written on commission, pieces meant to showcase a vocalist or an instrument (such as the rarely heard glass harmonica) or as a mark of friendship with another musician, this is a veritable treasure chest of musical gems that reflect the incredible versatility of the Salzburg genius.
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