Sainte-Colombe: Les Pleurs - Savall, Coin

M. de Sainte Colombe
Tombeau les Regrets "Les Pleurs"


In this recording:

Jordi Savall, Bass Viol
Christophe Coin, Bass Viol
Tous Les Matins Du Monde (OST)
Recorded in 1991

About the score: The score is a transposed version for harpsichord. I found it too tempting not to make the video. So I went for it.

I worked with Marc D. (MehdiCaps) on the title slide. Idea and the design of it is his. I only made some slight editing on colors. Thanks a lot, my dear Marc, for your constant help :-*

"Sainte-Colombe's music was only rediscovered in 1966, when a manuscript of his 67 Concerts a deux violes esgales was discovered in the library of the famed pianist Alfred Cortot. His music (and a fictionalized account of his relations with his more famous student Marin Marais) was brought to wide attention in Tous les matins du monde, a film that opened the ears of many to the glories of the viola da gamba. Sainte-Colombe's Tombeau les regrets is exemplary for its passionate and lyrical rhetoric. This extended work does not memorialize anyone in particular, but is rather a general meditation on loss. It includes vivid movements depicting the funeral bells (the carillon, or quarrillon), the call of Charon (the boatman of the Styx), the weeping (les pleurs) of those left behind, and finally the joys of the blessed souls in the Elysian Fields."

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[civileso]

Just for the record: This is not the movie that we see here; only Sainte-Colombe's music played by Savall and Coin. Only thing to see is the score, not some actor's underparts. ;) I could have used some other recording but this one happens to do some justice to the piece. The fact that it was the soundtrack for the movie doesn't change this fact. That is all.

[Davccelion]

I have never found in my life a compositor that expressed such sadness as deep as Sainte Colombe does.

[anisometropie]

viola da gamba is so beautiful

[josecango2]

@Davccelion He is amazing as saint Colombe and Marais and Lully and...I agree with you

[Stehnz]

@keanur1 merci beaucoup pour votre travail

[ardentepatience]

@reinadegrillos bla, bla, bla. gracias.

[reinadegrillos]

@ardentepatience ¡Qué ignorancia la tuya, y qué absurda pretensión la de dar "lecciones" nada menos que a Quignard y a Corneau! Ojalá te pongas a estudiar un poquito y leas un poquito más.

[gorpusasasa]

Découvert grace au fameux livre, grand amateur de musique, je m'incline...

[Kleinnam]

J'ai adoré le livre de Pascal Quignard. J'ai aimé le film d'Alain Corneau et maintenant je suis tomber amoureuse de cette musique. Comme quoi, à 17 ans on peut aimé de la musique comme celle-ci.

Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour. :)

[TurkishGirlManUtd]

Incoyable comment cette musique arrive à elle seule l'expression de la tristesse, la mélancolie, la mort ...

J'en 'pleure' .

[SuperClali]

increible!!!!

[keanur1]

Cette partition affichée n'est pas la version originale de Sainte-Colombe, mais un arrangement pour clavecin solo que j'ai réalisé en écoutant justement la version Savall/Coin... ma transcription est disponible gratuitement sur WIMA. P. Gouin.

[Davccelion]

@newFranzFerencLiszt , you may think whatever you please, but you assume a big risk judging someone you don't know at all.