Les Violons des Lumières Les plaisirs du Parnasse & David Plantier

• Jean-Pierre Guignon (1702 - 1774): Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 9:
• 1 Guignon: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 9: I. Andante 03:41
• 2 Guignon: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 9: II. Allegro 02:39
• 3 Guignon: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 9: III. Allegro poco 02:29
• 4 Guignon: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 9: IV. Allegretto gratioso 02:43
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711 - 1772): Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6:
• 5 Mondonville: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6: I. Adagio 02:10
• 6 Mondonville: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6: II. Fuga 02:35
• 7 Mondonville: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6: III. Largo 01:47
• Jean-Baptiste Cupis (1711 - 1788): Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6:
• 8 Cupis: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6: IV. Tempo di Gavotta (From Cupis's Sonata, Op. 1 No. 2) 03:08
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6:
• 9 Mondonville: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1 No. 6: V. Allegro 03:01
• Jacques Aubert (1689 - 1753): Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6:
• 10 Aubert: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6: I. Allegro ma non troppo 02:14
• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6:
• 11 Mondonville: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6: II. Largo (From Mondonville's Sonata, Op. 1 No. 3) 03:18
• Jacques Aubert: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6:
• 12 Aubert: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6: III. Gavotta I/II 03:22
• 13 Aubert: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Continuo, Book V No. 6: IV. Ciaconna 05:41
• Jean-Baptiste Quentin (1690 - 1742): Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book III No. 10:
• 14 Quentin: Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book III No. 10: I. Largo 02:20
• 15 Quentin: Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book III No. 10: II. Corrente 01:58
• 16 Quentin: Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book III No. 10: III. Sarabanda 02:45
• 17 Quentin: Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book III No. 10: IV. Grasioso 03:06
• Antoine Dauvergne (1713 - 1797): Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 2 No. 6:
• 18 Dauvergne: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 2 No. 6: I. Grave e stacato 03:07
• 19 Dauvergne: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 2 No. 6: II. Allegro 02:57
• 20 Dauvergne: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 2 No. 6: III. Aria Andante 02:57
• 21 Dauvergne: Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Continuo, Op. 2 No. 6: IV. Giga allegro 02:15
• Charles-Antoine Branche (1722 - 1779): Sonata in B Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book I, No. 12:
• 22 Branche: Sonata in B Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book I, No. 12: I. Largo 02:51
• 23 Branche: Sonata in B Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book I, No. 12: II. Allegro 03:17
• 24 Branche: Sonata in B Minor for Violin and Continuo, Book I, No. 12: III. Allegro 05:10
• Total Runtime 01:11:31

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Nach dem Erfolg des Jean-Marie Leclair gewidmeten Albums setzen wir unsere Erkundung des reichen Violinrepertoires des 18. Jahrhunderts fort. Leclairs Erfolg in den späten 1720er Jahren wirkte wie ein Katalysator, und viele andere talentierte Komponisten traten in seinen Fußstapfen. Diese Jahre waren für das Instrument besonders günstig, und die Fähigkeiten der einzelnen Geiger wurden von den Beobachtern genau unter die Lupe genommen: Der Titel des Premier violon de France war Gegenstand eines harten Wettbewerbs. Diese positive und verherrlichende Atmosphäre führte zu einer großen Verbreitung von Violinsonaten, aus denen wir die sechs Juwelen ausgewählt haben, die hier erscheinen. Der größte Teil dieser Werke wird hier zum ersten Mal eingespielt.

David Plantier, Violine
Les Plaisirs du Parnasse

David Plantier
began his apprenticeship of the violin at the age of five. After studying the modern violin at the Geneva Conservatory he devoted himself to the baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum of Basel, in the class of Chiara Banchini.

Since 2009 he has been first violin of Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. He also collaborates regularly with Le Concert des Nations of Jordi Savall, Café Zimmermann and Amarillis.

With his own ensemble Les Plaisirs du Parnasse, founded in 2003, he has been invited to the leading festivals of Europe and Japan, and has made several recordings, of music by Westhoff, Walther and Biber, all hailed by the international press.

It was as an ardent champion of Tartini’s music that he recorded and has performed in a duet with Annabelle Luis. This encouraged him to devise the programme Continuo, Addio!, which juxtaposes the magnificent repertory of the Scuola delle Nazione (Tartini and his disciples Nardini, Lahoussaye, et al.) and the first duets for violin and cello from the baroque to the romantic period. In 2020 he released a recording of unpublished sonatas by the master of Padua. A recording dedicated to sonatas by Jean-Marie Leclair has been released in 2021.

David Plantier teaches the baroque violin at the Musik-Akademie of Basel and he plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1766.

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