Sainte-Colombe: Concerts à deux violes esgales, Vol. 1 Paolo Biordi & Francesco Tomei

• Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640 - 1700): Concert No. 1 for 2 Violas "Le retrouvé":
• 1 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 1 for 2 Violas "Le retrouvé": I. Le retrouvé 04:48
• 2 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 1 for 2 Violas "Le retrouvé": II. Gigue en caprice 00:53
• Concert No. 18 for 2 Violas "Les bateries":
• 3 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 18 for 2 Violas "Les bateries": I. Les bateries 03:43
• 4 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 18 for 2 Violas "Les bateries": II. Sarabande en bourrasque 01:21
• Concert No. 53 for 2 Violas "L’aureille":
• 5 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 53 for 2 Violas "L’aureille": I. L’aureille 02:55
• 6 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 53 for 2 Violas "L’aureille": II. Courante première 01:16
• 7 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 53 for 2 Violas "L’aureille": III. Sarabande 02:01
• 8 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 53 for 2 Violas "L’aureille": IV. Courante deuxième 01:20
• Concert No. 45 for 2 Violas "Le cor":
• 9 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 45 for 2 Violas "Le cor" 03:36
• Concert No. 44 for 2 Violas "Tombeau":
• 10 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 44 for 2 Violas "Tombeau": III. Les pleurs 02:25
• Concert No. 59 for 2 Violas "Le précipité":
• 11 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 59 for 2 Violas "Le précipité" 02:25
• Concert No. 39 for 2 Violas "Le resjoui":
• 12 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 39 for 2 Violas "Le resjoui": I. Le resjoui 04:18
• 13 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 39 for 2 Violas "Le resjoui": II. Gavote 00:57
• Concert No. 60 for 2 Violas "Le majestueux":
• 14 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 60 for 2 Violas "Le majestueux" 04:08
• Concert No. 66 for 2 Violas "L'infidelle":
• 15 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 66 for 2 Violas "L'infidelle" 03:54
• Concert No. 6 for 2 Violas "La Duchesse":
• 16 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 6 for 2 Violas "La Duchesse": I. La Duchesse 02:45
• 17 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 6 for 2 Violas "La Duchesse": II. Sarabande lente première 02:42
• 18 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 6 for 2 Violas "La Duchesse": III. Sarabande lente deuxième 01:52
• Concert No. 61 for 2 Violas "Le varié":
• 19 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 61 for 2 Violas "Le varié" 03:08
• Concert No. 28 for 2 Violas "Le passant":
• 20 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 28 for 2 Violas "Le passant": I. Le passant 05:26
• 21 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 28 for 2 Violas "Le passant": II. Gavote 01:04
• Concert No. 7 for 2 Violas "Le pleureux":
• 22 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 7 for 2 Violas "Le pleureux": I. Sarabande la pleureuse 02:51
• Concert No. 48 for 2 Violas "Le raporté":
• 23 Sainte-Colombe: Concert No. 48 for 2 Violas "Le raporté": III. Chacone raportée 04:58
• Total Runtime 01:04:46

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Monsieur de Sainte-Colombes life is largely shrouded in mystery, and almost nothing was known of his music until these Concerts deux violes esgales were discovered in Geneva in 1966. Full of inspiration and fantasy, these pieces are often technically very demanding, innovatively deploying the viols entire range and putting players to the test in ways that were unprecedented in French viol literature. The sound of the viols is as haunting as the musics titles are teasingly expressive, and for their extraordinary imagination, originality and rare sonic splendour these works are justly considered one of the great monuments of European Baroque music.

Paolo Biordi, seven-stringed bass viol
Francesco Tomei, seven-stringed bass viol

Francesco Tomei
has started his musical experiences beyond the borders of the traditional academic frame, playing electro-acoustic instruments such as guitar, bass guitar and Chapman Stick-guitar.

He attended later classical tuition, at a relatively mature age, keeping meanwhile to follow different art-rock paths, in several productions during his curricular studies.

In 1996 he achieved in Adria a conservatory diploma as Double-bass player, after studies with U. Fioravanti; he has gone on taking part in a postgraduate programme held by A. Bocini at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.

As Double Bass Player, Francesco collaborated with many chamber and orchestral groups: Orchestra Symphonica Toscanini, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Erl Tiroler Festspiele (Austria), Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato, Orchestra Promusica di Pistoia, Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto, Orchestra della Toscana.

Since 2002 he complemented a professional activity as Contrabass player with an academic training in the Viola da gamba and Violone, which has taken him to pursue a parallel career with many early-music ensembles. He gained a Gamba degree in 2009, having enjoyed the tuition of Paolo Biordi.

Francesco fosters since then a personal interest in historically informed performances, on original instruments, having played with groups like Le Musiche Nove (with Cecilia Bartoli, Simone Kermes, Jochen Kowalsky), Ausermusici, Academia de Li Musici e Athestis Chorus. He has recorded for Sony Classical, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Amadeus, Symphonia, Brilliant, CPO, Tactus, Arts. He teaches Viola da gamba at Accademia Musicale di Firenze.

He plays in duo with the celllist Viola Mattioni Bassorilievi à Viola da gamba overo Violoncello, in duo with lute player Giovanni Bellini and in solo recital Bassorilievi a 7 corde.

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