What immediately grasps when listening to the Prelude by Charles Mouton (1626-1699), the first of the 23 tracks on this disc, it is the perfection of the recording made by Canio Giuseppe Famularo at the Orsini palace near Viterbo, in Italy, with an ideal balance between precision and sound breathing, without additional noises, linked to the instrumentalist, interfering with the fascination exerted by the course designed by Simone Vallerotonda. The Italian lutenist summons Mouton, De Visée, Gallot, Rameau, and arranges four suites around their works. One in ut minor, more melancholy, associated with winter; one in G minor, of anger and fire, for the summer, followed by a phlegmatic autumn in d minor and a bloody spring in the. “These are dialogues and sound monologues, meditations written with notes instead of words, on life, in all its facets”, writes the interpreter. Large lute records are like buoys in a discotheque, confidants of our soul waves. This one is valuable.
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