Yuu: Gentleness and Melancholy Kaori Uemura

• Tobias Hume (1569 - 1645):
• 1 Hume: The Spirit of Gambo 02:51
• 2 Hume: Captaine Humes Pavan 04:02
• 3 Hume: Love's Farewell 02:11
• Jean de Sainte-Colombe (1658 - 87):
• 4 Sainte-Colombe: Prélude 03:32
• Sainte-Colombe le fils (1660 - 1720):
• 5 fils: Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le père 14:11
• 6 fils: Fantaisie en Rondeau 02:17
• Antoine Forqueray (1672 - 1745):
• 7 Forqueray: Muzette 02:24
• Marin Marais (1656 - 1728):
• 8 Marais: Chaconne (Premier Livre) 07:06
• Antoine Forqueray:
• 9 Forqueray: La Léon 04:54
• Marin Marais:
• 10 Marais: Le Badinage 04:49
• Karl Friedrich Abel (1681 - 1767):
• 11 Abel: Solo in D Minor WKO205 02:07
• 12 Abel: Solo in D Minor WKO208 05:27
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Fantasia 7 in G Minor TWV 40:32:
• 13 Telemann: Fantasia 7 in G Minor TWV 40:32: I. Andante 04:00
• 14 Telemann: Fantasia 7 in G Minor TWV 40:32: II. Vivace 01:27
• 15 Telemann: Fantasia 7 in G Minor TWV 40:32: III. Allegro 01:50
• Marin Marais:
• 16 Marais: Les voix humaines 04:01
• Total Runtime 01:07:09

Info for Yuu: Gentleness and Melancholy

‘Music for a while / Shall all your cares beguile.’ In this famous song, Purcell invokes the power of music to soothe – at least temporarily – our pain and suffering. But do we really want to be soothed? Or do we prefer to cultivate our melancholy, in the company of Michel Lambert: ‘No, I sing not to charm away my sadness, but rather to maintain it’? In the St John Passion, Bach associates the funereal sweetness of the viol with the death of Christ. Like him, many other composers have chosen the instrument to evoke mourning. The pieces recorded on this album form a frame of melancholy music, just as the Japanese character (Yuu) expresses the gentleness of ‘a person who stands next to someone who is sad’. Through the vector of these melancholy pieces, the Japanese gambist Kaori Uemura makes her viol sing to maintain, but also to console sadness.

Kaori Uemura, viola da gamba

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