Wilhelm Friedemann Bach:
Fantasia in D minor, WFB A 105

Laurent de Saint-Luc:
Tombeau de la Reine de Prusse

Ennemond Gaultier:
Tombeau de Mezangeau

Georg Gebel:
Tombeau de Madame J.

Robert de Visee:
Tombeau de Vieux Gallot, Allemande

Johann Georg Weichenberger:
Tombeau pur l'Empereur Joseph

Silvius Leopold Weiss:
Tombeau sur la Mort de M

Francois Dufaut:
Tombeau de M. Blanrocher

Germain Pinel:
Tombeau sur la Mort du Roy d'Angleterre

Denis Gaultier:
Tombeau de Mons. de Lencos

Johann Jacob Froberger:
Tombeau fait a Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche

Prelude in E-flat major
Tombeau in E-flat major

In the French Baroque period, a tombeau refers to a piece of music in memory of a more or less beloved person, but sometimes also of a parrot or canary. This does not mean, however, that the pieces must necessarily be sad, somber music. The genre is also varied by the fact that a Tombeau can actually take on any type of movement - mourning takes place in major and minor, fast or slow.

Michael Dücker, lutenist, music researcher, editor and spiritus rector of the ensemble nuovo aspetto, reveals to us here in exemplary fashion the sheer inexhaustible inventiveness and originality with which composers in the Baroque period could mourn.

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Recording: WDR Köln, Germany, 2020.