SARABANDE
Created on 19/08/2007Latest update on 15/04/2024
Artist: Robert De Visée
Author: Robert de Visée
Year: 1682
French lute player, guitarist and composer at the courts of Louis XIV and XV (1655-c1733). From his Suite #3 in D-Minor (for guitar).
Covers:
- 1733:
Georg Friedrich Händel [clearly copied as part of his (orchestral) Suite #4 in D-minor]
- 1952:
Narciso Yepes [as second part of Jeux interdits, 1ère partie; for his world famous first part, main theme of eponymous René Clément film, see: Romance anonyme]
- 1958:
Paul Wolfe [on harpsichord]
- 1971:
Rene Bartoli [on guitar]
- 1975:
National Philharmonic Orchestra [as Main Theme, End-Title and twice as Duel (the second time on guitar) in Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon, crediting Händel]
- 1988:
Thierry Mutin [n°3 Fr as Sketch Of Love]
Kubrick's version was copied in commercials (WWF, Levi's Jeans) and TV series (BBC's Auschwitz: The Nazis And The Final Solution). Also in film A Cock And Bull Story ('06).
