Hotteterre: Complete Music for Flute and b.c.

Millán, Tony;
Penalver, Guillermo;
Saturno, María Alejandra

95511

When spirits are low, the music of Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763) is sure to raise them. Now the most celebrated member of a distinguished family of flute makers and players, he paid his way into the French royal court through his father’s well-rewarded success, and became ‘grand hautbois du roy’. In turn he passed the post on to his son, who married the daughter of the organist Balbastre. Jacques-Martin may himself have made instruments as his ancestors did, but it was for his playing and composing that he was most esteemed in his own lifetime. Even taking into account the prolific output of his contemporary Boismortier, there is surely no more dazzling and uplifting Baroque music composed for the flute and recorder than the suites of Hotteterre which are presented here complete in new recordings, led by the Madrid-based musician Guillermo Peñalver: the sessions took place in the magnificent chapel of San Lorenzo in the city’s Escorial Palace.

CD x 2

Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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