Biordi/Tomei - Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe: Concerts ? deux violes esgales (Vol. 1)

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe�s 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 viol�s 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 music�s 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.