Dufour: Pieces de Clavecin / De Luca

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 5, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Pierre-Thomas Dufour
    • PERFORMER
      Fernando De Luca
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 05, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421967714
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96771
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prélude

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    3. III. Air en chœur

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    4. IV. La vielle

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    5. V. Menuet

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    6. VI. Musette

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    7. VII. Badine

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    8. I. Sarabande

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    9. II. Courante

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    10. III. Les forgeronts

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    11. IV. Gigue I

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    12. V. Les Colombes

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    13. VI. Gigue II

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    14. VII. Menuet

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    15. I. Petitte ariette

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    16. II. Menuet I

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    17. III. La majestueuse

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    18. IV. Petitte sarabande

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    19. V. Menuet II

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    20. I. Menuet I

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    21. II. L'Itallienne

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    22. III. Marche

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    23. IV. Menuet II

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    24. V. La triomphante

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    25. VI. La melodieuse

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    26. I. Allemande

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    27. II. Gigue - Suitte de la chasse

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    28. I. Les scithes

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    29. II. La plaintive

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    30. III. Les matelots

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    31. IV. Menuet

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    32. V. La sincere

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    33. I. Allegro

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    34. II. Andante molto

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    35. III. Gigue: Presto

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    36. I. Allegro

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    37. II. Aria

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    38. III. Presto

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    39. Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1: Pièces in C Major, "Carillon"

      Composer: Pierre Thomas Dufour

      Performer: Fernando de Luca


An obscure corner of the French Baroque illuminated: the only available recording of the sole extant collection by a Parisian organist and composer. About Pierre-Thomas Dufour, almost nothing is now known for certain beyond his death in Paris, on 30 December 1786, and the publication in 1770 of this collection of harpsichord pieces bearing his name. He probably wrote a good deal else, both for harpsichord and organ, given that the title page of the collection informs us that Dufour was organist of the Eglise de Saint-Jean-en-Grève and the Eglise Saint-Laurent, both in Paris.

The collection is divided between dances (gigues, courantes, allemandes and musettes), and stylised evocations indicated by their titles after the fashion of Couperin: ‘The Blacksmiths’, ‘The Doves’ and so on. In his booklet essay, the harpsichordist Fernando De Luca observes that these tone-poems are no less vividly coloured and dramatized than contemporary canvases by Boucher and Watteau.

There are also two self-contained solo concertos for the instrument, in B flat and E flat major. Cast in the conventional three movements, the concertos share a grandeur of spirit with the more stately of the individual pieces such as ‘La Triomphante’ and ‘La Sincere’. Despite his obscurity, there is no reason to regard Dufour as a ‘lesser’ composer on the evidence of this slender collection, especially now that it is recorded in its entirety. A portrait emerges through it of Dufour himself, as a cultivated and cosmopolitan musician, well aware of contemporary trends not only in French music but further abroad, especially in the Italianate dash of the two concertos. The collection closes with a spectacular Carillon in imitation of the church-bells which rang throughout Paris (and every other European city) on the quarter-hour.

Fernando De Luca has accumulated an impressive discography for Brilliant Classics, including substantial and equally pioneering sets of the complete harpsichord music by Christoph Graupner (96131) and Christophe Moyreau (96285). ‘There is much to admire about this recording project… a monumental enterprise… [listeners will admire] both Graupner’s and De Luca’s facility, being rewarded with some attractive music confidently delivered.’ (Early Music Review)