Conversations Galantes is the second self-released outing by the young San Francisco Bay-area group Ensemble Mirable co-led by gambist Joanna Blendulf and harpsichordist JungHae Kim. The repertoire here is four of the six sonatas featured in French composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain's 1743 publication Six Sonates en Quatours, ou Conversations Galantes et amusantes, Op. 12, a work closely related to Georg Philipp Telemann's 1738 Quadri in terms of style and effect. In this case, the primary focus of this collection is on ...
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Conversations Galantes is the second self-released outing by the young San Francisco Bay-area group Ensemble Mirable co-led by gambist Joanna Blendulf and harpsichordist JungHae Kim. The repertoire here is four of the six sonatas featured in French composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain's 1743 publication Six Sonates en Quatours, ou Conversations Galantes et amusantes, Op. 12, a work closely related to Georg Philipp Telemann's 1738 Quadri in terms of style and effect. In this case, the primary focus of this collection is on Ensemble Mirable rather than the repertoire, rare and desirable as it is. Heretofore recordings of Guillemain's work has largely concentrated on his solo violin pieces in his Amusement, Op. 18, and only one of these Op. 12 works, the Sonata No. 3 in D minor, has appeared on disc before.Like Telemann's Quadri (also known as the "Paris Quartets"), Guillemain's set of six are intended for the "Kenner" (i.e., expert players) rather than the "Liebhaber" (amateurs), but is designed to be...
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![Conversations Galantes-Louis-Gabriel Guillemain [Composer]; Ensemble Mirable [Orchestra]; Greer Ellison (Flute), Elizabeth Blumenstock (Violin), Joanna Blendulf (Viola Da Gamba), William Skeen (Cello), Junghae Kim (Harpsichord) [Performer];](https://www4.alibris-static.com/cover/m23679eove8_t.jpg)
