Jaques Morel is an excellent French composer and student of Marin Marais. Excellent viola player...It was an mazing music chamber music....Thanks for uploading.
FYI, the painting (a detail of the so-called "A Youth with a Viola de Gamba") is by the Dutch artist, Jan Verkolje, from around 1672. Verkolje lived and worked in Delft, and was a very popular portrait and genre painter (both subjects being very popular themes in 17th Dutch painting at the time). I cannot locate who the subject of the portrait is. The inscription in the background is not anybody's name, but the Latin maxim: Sic transit, gloria mundi", a Medieval invention meaning "Thus passes the glory of the world", or words to that effect (in modern parlance: Get over yourself). BTW, really nice viol playing!
This painting is located in Krakow, Poland at King's Palace in Wawel ( it is rather small and hanged in a hard to find nook, but it is there). As for its genre it is typical "vanitas" - a religious remainder of trancience of life and its pleasures ( youth, music, fame, luxury, beauty and all what is excites vanity - one of the biggest sins according to catholic and protestant denominations). The "vanitas" genre also exists as still life with a same set of symbols for life's transience - french and netherland old masters were big proponents of this genre in 16-17th centuries. Often beautifully painted and cleverly arranged. But this partiucuylar painting is a personal favourite...
Wunderschöne und detaillierte Interpretation dieser fein oder perfekt komponierten Meisterwerke in verschiedenen Tempi mit tiefem doch gut phrasiertem Ton des technisch anspruchsvollen Streichinstruments und zurückgehaltenem doch schimmerndem Klang des technisch perfekten Cembalos. Der intime und perfekt entsprechende Dialog zwischen den beiden Virtuosen ist wahrlich ergreifend. Danke für die wertvolle Aufnahme!
Tracklist: 00:00:00 Suite No. 1 in A Minor: I. Prélude. Lentement - Vîte 00:03:47 Suite No. 1 in A Minor: II. Allemande 00:05:47: Suite No. 1 in A Minor: III. Courante 00:07:42 No. 1 in A Minor: IV. Sarabande l’agréable 00:11:14 No. 1 in A Minor: V. Gigue 00:12:25 No. 1 in A Minor: VI. La bretonne. Gratieusement 00:15:50 No. 1 in A Minor: VII. Menuets I & II 00:17:55: No. 2 in D Minor: I. Prélude 00:19:59 No. 2 in D Minor: II. Allemande la jolie 00:21:58 No. 2 in D Minor: III. Courante la dacier 00:23:27 No. 2 in D Minor: IV. Sarabande 00:26:31 No. 2 in D Minor: V. Gigue l’inconstante 00:27:45 No. 2 in D Minor: VI. Le follet 00:30:01 No. 2 in D Minor: VII. La fanchonette 00:30:53 No. 3 in D Major: I. Prélude 00:33:22 No. 3 in D Major: II. Boutade de Sainct Germain 00:34:20 No. 3 in D Major: III. Allemande la brillante & double 00:37:15 No. 3 in D Major: IV. Courante 00:38:41 No. 3 in D Major: V. Sarabande l’Aurore 00:40:47 No. 3 in D Major: VI. Gigue à l’anglaise 00:42:15 No. 3 in D Major: VII. Gavotte 00:43:18 No. 3 in D Major: VIII. Fugue. Gayment 00:46:20 No. 3 in D Major: Échos de Fontainebleau 00:48:21 No. 4 in G Major: I. Prélude. Lentement 00:50:21 No. 4 in G Major: II. Fantaisie. Gayement 00:51:19 No. 4 in G Major: III. Allemande 00:52:48 No. 4 in G Major: IV. Courante 00:54:25 No. 4 in G Major: V. Sarabande 00:56:45 No. 4 in G Major: VI. Gigue à l'italienne 00:58:05 No. 4 in G Major: VII. Rondeau dauphin 01:02:23 No. 4 in G Major: VIII. Menuet 01:03:01 No. 4 in G Major: IX. La guerandoise & double 01:04:16 Chaconne en trio in G Major
