Couperin: Complete Solo Harpsichord Music / Mahúgo

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
August 27, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      COUPERIN, ARMAND LOUIS
    • PERFORMER
      Yago Mahugo
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 27, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421954592
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95459
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. La Victoire

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    3. III. Courante la de Croissy

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    4. IV. Les Cacqueteuses

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    5. V. La Gregoire

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    6. VI. L'Intrepide: Rondeau

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    7. VII. Menuet I-II

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    8. VIII. L'Arlequine ou La Adam: Rondeau

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    9. IX. La Blanchet

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    10. X. La de Boisgelou

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    11. XI. La Foucquet

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    12. XII. La Semillante ou La Joly

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    13. XIII. La Turpin

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    14. XIV. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    15. XV. Menuet I-II

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    16. XVI. La du Breuil

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    17. XVII. La Cheron

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    18. XVIII. L'Affligee

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    19. XIX. L'Enjouee

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    20. XX. Les Tendres Sentiments

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    21. XXI. Rondeau gracieux

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    22. I. L'Italienne

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    23. II. L'Angloise

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    24. III. L'Allemande

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    25. IV. La Francoise

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo

    26. La chasse

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Yago Mahúgo


Towards the end of the renowned Couperin dynasty, Armand-Louis was born in 1727 as the nephew of François Couperin (‘le grand’), and in due course he became titulaire organist at the Église Saint-Gervais in the Marais district of Paris, as generations of Couperins in a continuous sequence stretching back to 1653. In 1752 he married Elisabeth-Antoinette Blanchet, daughter of the harpsichord-maker François-Étienne Blanchet and herself the third generation of a family of musicians and luthiers. They had four children, three of whom lived to maturity and became musicians, including their son Pierre, who succeeded Armand-Louis at Saint- Gervais after a tragic accident with a runaway horse brought about the composer’s premature end in 1789. It has been suggested that personal modesty, as well as the demands of a schedule which saw him in demand at churches across Paris, was the cause of Armand-Louis publishing so little of his music. Certainly it was highly esteemed during his lifetime. These Pièces de Clavecin were published in 1751 as his ‘Opus 1’ and succeeded only by lesser-known collections of violin sonatas and trios. The Pièces de clavecin deserve consideration alongside the viol fantazias of Purcell and the Lachrymae of Dowland for their rich, saturated exploitation of an idiom passed its high noon. The collection is divided into two parts by key, G major/minor and B flat major/minor. The titles allude to friends and well-known figures of the time, and much is lost or rather buried within and between the notes in this kind of portraiture, yet the pieces spring to life in the right hands.