Description

As arranged and performed by the gambists of Les Voix Humaines, the French works on this disc shows just how versatile the music and musicians of the Baroque era could be. The word “arrange” was in fact rare until modern times. This is hardly surprising, since the idea of “arranging” implies a corollary assumption that the identity of a piece depends on its being played on a specific instrument. That assumption appears to have been less common in the Baroque period, and crossover settings involving expansion or telescoping of instrumental forces were therefore perfectly natural.