Forqueray Unchained André Lislevand, Jadran Duncumb, Paola Erdas

• Antoine Forqueray (1671 - 1745):
• 1 Forqueray: Chaconne La Buisson 05:50
• Marin Marais (1656 - 1728):
• 2 Marais: Allemande & Double (Nos. 78-80) 04:21
• 3 Marais: Plainte (No. 86) 02:27
• Antoine Forqueray:
• 4 Forqueray: La Mandoline 03:56
• 5 Forqueray: La Dubreuil 03:31
• Marin Marais:
• 6 Marais: La Guitare 03:26
• 7 Marais: La Guitare 03:29
• Louis Couperin (1626 - 1661):
• 8 Couperin: Passacaille en Ut Majeur 04:57
• Marin Marais:
• 9 Marais: Prélude 01:23
• Antoine Forqueray:
• 10 Forqueray: Jupiter 03:59
• 11 Forqueray: La Sylva 03:40
• 12 Forqueray: La Montigni 03:10
• Anonymous:
• 13 Anonymous: Prélude 03:12
• Robert de Visée (1650 - 1725):
• 14 Visée: Sarabande 02:30
• Antoine Forqueray:
• 15 Forqueray: La Ferrand 03:34
• 16 Forqueray: La Tronchin 03:54
• Robert de Visée:
• 17 Visée: Courante I & II 02:30
• 18 Visée: La Mascarade 01:51
• Total Runtime 01:01:40

Info for Forqueray Unchained

The debut album of the young viola da gamba player, André Lislevand, is centred around the great viol works of Antoine Forqueray. Forqueray Unchained - perhaps a provocative title, but a fitting allusion to the freedom in Forqueray's music. Music without chains, without stylistic constraints, in perfect balance between the French and Italian styles. A particularly intriguing melange when one thinks about the diverse nature of the two musical cultures: where the Italian blazes in virtuosity and extrovert force, the French cultivates the magic of tone, the colours and formal perfection. André Lislevand - with a French mother and a Norwegian father, but born and raised in Italy - perfectly embodies the musical dualism that is the focus of this album. Together with Paola Erdas on the harpsichord, Jadran Duncumb on the theorbo, and with a cameo by his father, Rolf Lislevand, he presents a programme where Forqueray's visionary viol works are playfully combined with pieces by his contemporaries, free and unchained in a game of virtuosity and sensitivity.

"Forqueray's demands on his interpreters are considerable, but André Lislevand is absolutely on top of his game and not afraid to explore the extremes of his instrument's aesthetic world though without ever losing touch with le bon gout." (Early Music Review)

Andre Lislevand, viola da Gamba
Jadran Duncumb, theorbe, lute
Paola Erdas, harpsichord
Rolf Lislevand, guitar, mandolin

André Lislevand
was born in 1993 In Verona, Italy. Following the family tradition (his parents are luth players) starts really early to interest in early music. Therefore, he will approach to the viola da gamba at the age of 11 with Alberto Rasi at the Conservatory of Verona where hi graduates in 2011 with full marks cum Laude.

At the same time he starts to study with Paolo Pandolfo at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where in 2014 obtein the Bachelor of Music and Arts.

At the age of 16 he already starts performing with the greatest musical personalities from southern Europe to the northern Scandinavia, among others Roy Goodman, Arve Tellefsen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Rolf Lislevand, Andrea Marcon, Alfredo Bernardini, Grete Pedersen, Marco Ambrosini, Atle Sponberg, Gjermund Larsen, performing with Ensemble Kapsberger, La Cetra Barockorchester, The Norwegian Soloist Choir, Trondheim Barokk, Verona Baroque Orchestra, Villa Contarini Baroque Orchestra and others.

He has recently played at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, conducted by the world famous norwegian violin player Arve Tellefsen.

He has participated in Masterclasses of the best European gamba players, such as Paolo Pandolfo, Jordi Savall, Philippe Pierlot, Guido Balestracci and Lorenz Duftschmid.

From 2010 is member of Ensemble Kapsberger, the innovative ensemble directed by Rolf Lislevand, that from the nineties propose a new vision of the early Baroque repertoire.

A part his continuo player carreer, Andrè plays regurarly in duo with the harpsichordist Paola Erdas and the lutenist Jadran Duncumb.

Andrè is also interested in others musical kinds: with his ensemble Hanané propose eastern music repertoire, a “nomadic” music re-arranged and revisited in collaboration with the singer Marie Pornon.

Jadran Duncumb
is an English/Croatian/Norwegian guitarist and lutenist. He was the first guitarist in twenty years to be accepted into the Barratt-Due Music Institute in Oslo, where he spent seven years learning the guitar under Vegard Lund. In 2008, he was a finalist on the guitar of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and NRK’s Norwegian equivalent, and the success in these competitions gave Jadran the oportunity to give recitals all over Europe, appear as a soloist with orchestras including the Norwegian State Radio Orchestra, London Mozart Players and BBC National Orchestra of Wales as well as have a BBC Radio-recorded recital at Wigmore Hall.

Jadran began to explore baroque music during his studies at the Royal College of Music (where he studied lute under Jakob Lindberg) in London and has since been very active as a lute-continuo player performing with many leading European ensembles including the English Baroque Soloists at the BBC Proms, Ensemble Diderot (France), I Fagiolini (UK), La Cetra (Switzerland) and Barokkanerne (Norway). He has also given chamber concerts with other internationally renowned musicians such as Rolf Lislevand, Mario Brunello and Giuliano Carmignola – playing with the latter two as part of a trio at the festival ‘Suoni delle Dolomiti’ in 2016, and Maurice Steger as a soloist with the BSO in Ankara, Turkey.

His duo, with the violinist Kinga Ujszàszi, “Repicco”, was selected in the Ambronay Festival “EEEmerging Artists Programme” giving concerts and and classes in Romania, Latvia, Italy and at the Ambronay Festival where they were awarded the audience prize for their Assassini, Assassinati programme. They have subsequently been invited to give several concerts throughout Europe in the coming concert seasons, and to serve as mentors in the 2017 Ambronay Baroque Academy, and returned to Ambronay in 2016 for a full concert.

He also frequently concertises with violinist Johannes Pramsohler, touring with programmes of music for baroque lute and violin by Bach and Weiss and their contemporaries. With Ensemble Diderot – Johannes’ ensemble – they recently made the first recording of Antonio Montanari’s violin concertos for Audax Records(available in June 2015), while a CD of duos and solos by J. S. Bach and Sylvius Weiss will come out in 2017.

Other regular collaborators include the viola da gamba player André Lislevand, harpsichordist and baritone Iason Marmaras, violinist Maria Ines Zanovello, and the soprano Elizabeth Dobbin and her group “Le Jardin Secret” with whom a CD of 17th century ‘airs de cour’ by de Bousset came out in July 2016.

His debut solo CD will come out in late 2017 with baroque-lute sonatas from Dresden by Weiss and Hasse on Audax Records. In 2015, he was awarded the 1st prize at the international “Maurizio Pratola” lute competition in L’Aquila, Italy (Paul O’Dette, jury foreman), as well as receiving a distinction for his Master Degree recital at the Musichochschule in Trossingen, Germany where he studied under Rolf Lislevand.

Paola Erdas
is a harpsichordist with various interests and with a vast and unconventional repertoire.

Her artistic and musicological approach is melted with a deep sensory attraction to the instrument, sound, the special sound which is the manifesto of her career.

After obtaining her diploma in Venice with Diana Petech, a grant allowed her to study for four years at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg in Kenneth Gilbert’s class.

In 1996, with recorder virtuoso Lorenzo Cavasanti, she founded the JANAS ensemble. Under her leadership the group, which was soon enlarged to become a multi-instrumental ensemble, has given public performances of programmes created with historical reconstruction, in the widest sense, very much in mind.

Paola is particularly interested in the early harpsichord repertoire, and combines her performing activities with in-depth musicological studies published by Ut Orpheus Edizioni (Perrine Pièces de Luth en Musique ; Lebègue Première Livre ; Cabezon Obras de Musica).

Her solo CDs (Perrine – Venegas de Henestrosa – Il Cembalo intorno a Gesualdo -Lebegue – D’Anglebert – Cabezon) have always received wide acclaim from international critics. They have been recorded on precious historical instruments, which help to achieve the ideal sonority and rare refinement of Paola’s harpsichord playing.

Paola is interested to explore various repertoires, musical genre and in various art’s forms and she collaborate with many musicians and artists.

Since 2006 she collaborate with the lute player Rolf Lislevand, in order to explore the connections between lute and harpsichord in the French repertoire.

Since 2008, with the Indian percussionist Shyamal Maitra, she has been exploring the possibilities of combining the timbre of harpsichord and tabla with a project, “A Night in Goa” and “Musa Indiana” focused on Indian and Iberian music.

She starts in 2012 a collaboration with Andrè Lislevand, young rising star of viola da gamba.

In “Su Cantu in sas Laras” ( the Song on the lips) created by Sergio Ladu, Paola is involved in the music of her mother country, Sardinia, and for the first time she is involved like musician but also actress and text’s author.

From 2014 her studies in early repertoire began a new concert with the singer and lute player Claudia Caffagni around the poetry of Cristina da Pizzano, late XIV century, in which Paola is narrator and plays her medieval harpsichord.

In 2016 she starts a collaboration with the dancer Daša Grgič for the performance DIH-breath focused on the body substance and breath in music and dance.

A new CD is coming with the ensemble Demesure (J.de Banes Gardonne; A.Guerrero; F.Pavan; P.Erdas) with unedited cantatas by Giacomo Caresana. Paola Erdas is cofounder with Andrea Lausi of the international festival of early music “Wunderkammer” in Trieste.

Paola Erdas greatly enjoys teaching as well as performing, and she is Professor of Harpsichord at the Conservatorio of Trieste and Messina, Italy.

Rolf Lislevand
was born in Oslo in 1961. He began studying classical guitar at the State University for Music in Oslo in 1980, continuing his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, graduating in 1987. His principal areas of study were historical performance practice, the lute, the five-string Baroque guitar and the theorbo, which he studied with Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith.

Lislevand settled in Verona where he founded the Ensemble Kapsberger. Their first CD was dedicated to the work of the Italian early Baroque musician Johann Heironymus Kapsberger and it won the French Diapason d’Or in 1994 as well as the Choc du Monde de la musique. Further recordings include Encuentro with works by Gaspar Sanz and Antonio de Santa Cruz, Santiago de Murcia Codex and Alfabeto. He works regularly with a number of early music ensembles including Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI and Le Concert des Nations. With his own groups he is a frequent guest at international festivals such as Edinburgh, the Festival Musica Antiqua in Bruges and the Early Music Festival in Utrecht.

He is also one of the best-known performers of Spanish Renaissance music and music of the late Middle Ages which he also plays on the vihuela. In 1993 Rolf Lislevand began teaching the lute and historical performance practice at the University of Music in Trossingen. His pupils have included Maria Ferré and Mirko Arnone who went on to join the chamber music ensemble L’Art du Bois. As well as numerous recordings with Jordi Savall, Rolf Lislevand has released CDs of Bach’s works for lute (Naïve, 2000) as well as other lute compositions by Ennemond and Denis Gaultier, Mézangeau, Dufault, Gallot, Mouton and Boquet (Naïve, 2003). Further recordings include Nuove Musiche, featuring music from early 17th-century Italy, with harpist Arianna Savall, percussionist Pedro Estevan and nyckelharpa specialist Marco Ambrosini (ECM, 2005).

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