Gordon Ferries - Les Plaisirs Les Plus Charmants (baroque guitar)

From its earliest beginnings, the five-course Baroque guitar was associated – for better or worse – with dance music, becoming the sensuous younger cousin of the lute or vihuela. In this mélange of music from seventeenth-century France, some of it recorded for the first time, and performed on baroque guitars including an original historic instrument from the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Instruments, Gordon Ferries weaves a tapestry of sound that is at once elegant, earthy, and utterly timeless.

1        Prelud
Composed By – Francesco Corbetta
1:15
2        Chiacona In C Major
Composed By – Francesco Corbetta
2:16
Suite In C Major (Livre de Pièces de Guitarre Dedié Au Roy, 1686)
Composed By – Robert de Visée
(9:57)
3        Prélude    0:47
4        Allemande    2:19
5        Courante    1:43
6        Sarabande    1:13
7        Gigue A la Maniere Engloise    1:05
8        Gavotte    1:00
9        Menuet    0:41
10        Autre Menuet    1:09
Suite In D Major (Livre de Guitarre Et Autres Pièces de Musique, 1680)
Composed By – Henri Grénerin*
(12:52)
11        Prélude    1:28
12        Allemande    1:55
13        Courante    1:19
14        Passacaille    2:22
15        Sarabande    3:27
16        Gigue    1:05
17        Menuet    1:16
Suite In G Minor (Pièces de Guitarre, 1676)
Composed By – Rémy Médard
(7:32)
18        Prélude D'accords Chromatiques    0:44
19        Allemande    1:53
20        Sarabande    1:55
21        Gigue    1:22
22        Passacaille    1:38
23        Caprice de Chacone
Composed By – Francesco Corbetta
2:41
Suite In A Minor (La Guitarre Royalle Dédiée Au Roy de la Grande-Bretagne, 1670)
Composed By – Francesco Corbetta
(13:16)
24        Prélude    0:38
25        Allemande    3:42
26        Courante    2:44
27        Sarabande    2:24
28        Gigue    1:53
29        Passacaille    1:55
Pieces de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Manuscrit Rés F844, Early 18th Century, Trans. Anon.)    
30        Masquerade
Composed By – Robert de Visée
1:20
31        Air
Composed By – Marin Marais
1:05
32        Musete
Composed By – André Campra
1:38
33        Entrée d'Isis
Composed By – Jean-Baptiste Lully
1:25
34        Entrée d'Apollon
Composed By – Jean-Baptiste Lully
2:37
35        Sœur Monique
Composed By – François Couperin
3:11
Suite In G Minor (Livre de Pièces de Guitarre de Musique, C.1675)
Composed By – Antoine Carré
(11:02)
36        Prélude    1:05
37        Sarabande    1:35
38        Allemande    2:47
39        Sarabande <<plainte>>    2:07
40        Courante    0:50
41        Sarabande    2:38