Name: Fan Favorite Theorbo Solo (Hybr)
Brand: Visee / Lindberg
SKU: SK0071086-US20260105-083122
Availability: InStock

DISC: 1

1. Suite in A minor~Prélude

2. Suite in A minor~Allemande ‘La Royalle’

3. Suite in A minor~Courante

4. Suite in A minor~Sarabande

5. Suite in A minor~Gavotte

6. Suite in A minor~Rondeau ‘La Mascarade’

7. Suite in A minor~Chaconne

8. Suite in D major~Prélude

9. Suite in D major~Allemande

10. Suite in D major~Courante

11. Suite in D major~Sarabande

12. Suite in D major~Gigue

13. Prélude in D minor

14. Entrée d’Apollon

15. Air in D minor

16. Contredance La Furstemberg

17. Passacaille in D minor

18. Prélude in C minor

19. Plainte or Tombeau des Mesdemoiselles de Visée, filles de l’Auteur

20. Prélude in G major

21. Entrée des Espagnolles

22. Sylvains

23. Musette in G major

24. Chaconne in G major

25. Suite in E minor~Prélude

26. Suite in E minor~Allemande

27. Suite in E minor~Courante

28. Suite in E minor~Sarabande

29. Suite in E minor~Gigue / Double

30. Suite in E minor~Gavotte

31. Suite in E minor~Rondeau ‘La Monfermeil’

32. Folies d’Espagne in A Minor

More Info:

12 years after his album entitled ‘Italian Virtuosi of the Chitarrone’ (BIS-1899), Jakob Lindberg returns to his magnificent theorbo, specially built for him by the luthier Michael Lowe, based on an instrument preserved in the Musee de la Musique in Paris.One of the most spectacular instruments of the early baroque owing to it’s length and great number of strings, the theorbo was originally designed to accompany the voice, but is also ideally suited to solo performance. For this disc, Lindberg has chosen pieces by Robert de Visee, one of the great French masters of the lute, theorbo and guitar repertoire and a favourite of Louis XIV. The recording features dances as well as character pieces, including a moving ‘Plainte’ in memory of his two deceased daughters. It also includes de Visee’s arrangements of compositions by Lully, Couperin and Purcell as well as his own version of Les Folies d’Espagne, a very popular chord progression that inspired so many composers of his time.Jakob Lindberg writes: ‘I can’t help but be seduced by the grace of the instrument’s lines, the resonance of it’s sonorities, and by the unmistakably French elegance of this remarkable composer.’