Marais, Marin - Deuxieme Livre de Pieces de Viole (5CD) - Joubert-Caillet, Francois

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Compiled from pieces that were clearly composed much earlier as well as from more recent works, the Deuxieme Livre pays homage to its two masters and calls for tonalities that it had not yet employed; it evokes the past and the great lutenists of that time with the Pavane and yet also contains important innovations. It is truly a transitional work: published at the very dawn of the century, it opened the doors to the important stylistic changes that French music would undergo during the Age of Enlightenment.