BARRIERE Sonates pour le Violoncelle Vol.1 / Bruno Cocset

Jean-Baptiste BARRIERE (1707 – 1747)

Sonates Pour Le Violoncelle Avec La Basse Continüe

Bruno Cocset,

Les Basses Réunies

Sonata I en Si Mineur, Livre I (12:37)

Violoncello – Bruno Cocset
Contrabass – Richard Myron
Harpsichord – Blandine Rannou
Theorbo – Pascal Monteilhet
Violoncello – Emmanuel Balssa

1 Adagio 2:16
2 Allegro 3:15
3 Adagio-Andante 4:44
4 Allegro 2:22

Sonata II A Tre En Ré Mineur, Livre III (8:43)

Violoncello [Ténor De violoncelle] – Bruno Cocset
Organ – Blandine Rannou
Theorbo – Pascal Monteilhet
Viol [Basse De Viole] – Emmanuel Balssa

5 Adagio 1:56
6 Allegro 1:22
7 Aria (Largo) 2:55
8 Giga 2:13

Sonata IV En Sol Majeur, Livre IV (10:26)

Violoncellos – Bruno Cocset, Emmanuel Balssa

9 Andante 3:33
10 Adagio 2:53
11 Allegro Prestissimo 3:35

Sonata VI En Do Mineur, Livre II (12:42)

Violoncello – Bruno Cocset
Harpsichord, Organ – Blandine Rannou
Theorbo – Pascal Monteilhet
Violone – Richard Myron

12 Adagio 2:32
13 Allegro 3:24
14 Largetto 4:40
15 Giga 2:06

Sonata III En Ré Mineur, Livre II (8:39)

Violin [Basse De Violon] – Bruno Cocset
Theorbo – Pascal Monteilhet
Viol [Basse De Viole] – Emmanuel Balssa

16 Adagio 1:34
17 Allemanda (Allegro) 2:58
18 Sarabanda 3:04
19 Minuetto 1:03

Sonata IV En Si Bémol Majeur, Livre III

Violoncello – Bruno Cocset
Contrabass – Richard Myron
Harpsichord – Blandine Rannou
Violoncello – Emmanuel Balssa

Total time 62’31

Recorded in October 2000 at Paris, Chapelle de l’Hôpital Notre-Dame de Bon Secours.

 

ALPHA Classics, France, 2017 – Alpha 330

Series: Alpha Collection – 31

3760014193309

Reissue, First issue was Alpha Productions – Alpha 015, 2001

 

 

Whilst not well known to the general public today, Barrière was so renowned a few years after his death that Pierre-Louis Daquin de Chateau-Lyon did not hesitate to describe him as: the famous Barrière, deceased only recently, possessed all that one can desire…few could perform as well as he”.