Chambonnieres Overseas

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Alpha
Release Date
October 3, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres
    • PERFORMER
      Louise Acabo
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 03, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511565
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1156
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude (Melothesia, London, 1673)

      Composer: John Roberts

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    2. Allmain (Melothesia, London, 1673)

      Composer: John Roberts

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    3. Almaine (Courante) (Elizabeth Rogers Virginal Book, 1656)

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    4. Sarabande I (Bauyn, Paris)

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    5. Les pieces de clavessin, Book 1: Gigue, "La madeleinette"

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    6. Suite No. 3 in D Minor: Prélude

      Composer: Jean Henri D'Anglebert

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    7. Les pieces de clavessin, Book 1: Suite No. 1 in A Minor: I. Allemande: La rare

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    8. Courante (Bauyn, Paris)

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    9. Melothesia: Saraband (arr. W. Thatcher)

      Composer: Matthew Locke

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    10. Ayre

      Composer: Albertus Bryne

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    11. Saraband

      Composer: Albertus Bryne

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    12. Gigue, "La Vétille" (Oldham, England, No. 28)

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    13. Partita No. 30 in A Minor, FbWV 630, "Plainte faite a Londres pour passer la Melancolie"

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    14. I. Prelude

      Composer: Matthew Locke

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    15. II. Almain

      Composer: Matthew Locke

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    16. Les pieces de clavessin, Book 1: Suite No. 2 in C Major: II. Courante: Iris

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    17. Melothesia: Suite No. 1 in C Major: VII. Country DanceVII. Country Dance

      Composer: Matthew Locke

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    18. Les pieces de clavessin, Book 1: Suite No. 5 in G Minor: IV. Pavane L'entretien des dieux

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    19. I. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    20. II. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    21. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    22. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Jacob Froberger

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    23. Suite No. 1 in G Major: Chaconne Rondeau

      Composer: Jean Henri D'Anglebert

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    24. Prelude III

      Composer: Christopher Preston

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    25. Les pieces de clavessin, Book 2: Allemande

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    26. Sarabande Jeunes Zephirs (after J.C. Chambonnieres)

      Composer: Jean Henri D'Anglebert

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    27. Courante in G Major - Double in G Major

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières, Jean Henri D'Anglebert

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    28. Sarabande II (Bauyn, Paris)

      Composer: Jacques Champion Chambonnières

      Performer: Louise Acabo

    29. Tombeau de Mr. de Chambonnieres

      Composer: Jean Henri D'Anglebert

      Performer: Louise Acabo


Alpha Classics proudly presents "Baroque Stories", a new series of recordings devoted to young talents in early music; it's first recording introduces Louise Acabo, a French harpsichordist and winner of several international competitions who divides her time between Paris and Basel. She has chosen to devote her debut recording to Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres (ca1601-1672), composer of more than 150 harpsichord pieces and the first French musician of the 17th century to publish volumes of works for harpsichord. "Once you have heard the harpsichord played by the Sieur de Chambonnieres, you need hear nothing else", stated the Harmonie universelle of 1636. It was this unique relationship with sound that appealed to Louise Acabo: "his writing, eminently vocal, demands that the player transcend the mechanical aspect of the instrument and approach it's strength and fragility with suppleness". Although Chambonnieres never left France, his work crossed borders and influenced composers abroad, the English in particular. Louise Acabo has constructed her own list of works from available sources, alternating works by Chambonnieres with compositions by Locke, Preston and Bryne.