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Baroque Chamber Music with Recorder
by Castello, Cima, Couperin, Dornel, Graun, Quantz, and Turini
Marion Verbruggen & L'Ensemble Arion
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Recorded December 1987, at the Old Brick Church, West Brome, Québec. Producer and Engineer: Ralph Dopmeyer Design: Philidor Company, Boston Cover painting: "Shepherdess with Recorder and Pan Pipes," Anonymous, Italian, early 18th century. Courtesy of the collection of Ingeborg von Heune. Total playing time: 69:03 |
Contents
- Louis Antoine Dornel: Symphonie en quatuor
- Johann Joachim Quantz: Sonata in C Major
- Giovanni Paolo Cima: Sonata a tre
- Dario Castello: Sonata Quarta
- Francesco Turini: Sonata in a minor
- Carl Heinrich Graun: Sonata in F major
- François Couperin: Huitième Concert
About the Performers
Marion Verbruggen was born in Amsterdam in 1950. She studied with Frans Bruggen at the Muzieklyceum in Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1972 she was one of the prize-winners at the first International Recorder Competition at Bruges. In 1979 she won the Erwin Bodky Award for the performance of early music.
Founded in 1981, L'Ensemble Arion is based in Montréal. The members of the quartet are:
- Claire Guimond, baroque flute
- Chantal Rémillard, baroque violin
- Betsy MacMillan, viola da gamba
- Hank Knox, harpsichord