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The Scale Knitters
the intriguingly named The Scale Knitters bring the requisite darkness and drama to La gamme, as its subtitle suggests, with greater sonority. Here, violinist Fiona-Émilie Poupard and bass...
Special offer. Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont
The Scale Knitters
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the intriguingly named The Scale Knitters bring the requisite darkness and drama to La gamme, as its subtitle suggests, with greater sonority. Here, violinist Fiona-Émilie Poupard and bass...
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It was between the publication of the Quatrieme Livre de Pieces de Violes in 1717 and the Cinquieme in 1725 that Marin Marais offered his public an exceptional collection of works that use both the violin and the viol.
These works are very different from the earlier viol pieces, from the instruments used to the works' formal structures: they include a sonata inspired by Italian models marked a la maresienne (in Marais' own style), a piece on a three note basso ostinato that evokes the peals of bells in a Parisian church, and an astonishing monument of a piece -- La Gamme -- that Marais described as an example of a small opera for instruments.
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April 2025
the intriguingly named The Scale Knitters bring the requisite darkness and drama to La gamme, as its subtitle suggests, with greater sonority. Here, violinist Fiona-Émilie Poupard and bass violist Marion Martineau dispatch ascending and descending scalic figures, mournful suspensions, rapid divisions and cantabile lyricisms alike with truly operatic élan.
