Foucquet: Pieces de clavecin / Fernando De Luca

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
March 15, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    • PERFORMER
      Fernando De Luca
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 15, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421967721
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96772
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. La renommée – Marche en Rondeau – Double de La Marche

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    2. II. Fanfare

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    3. III. Le feu

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    4. IV. Les grâces – Musette I-II

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    5. V. Les ris – Tambourins I-II - Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    6. VI. Les Jeux - Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    7. I. Marche des Pèlerins de Cythère, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    8. II. Le passe tems - Pantomyme, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    9. III. La destrade, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    10. IV. Le carillon de cythère

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    11. V. La brillante

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    12. VI. La sœur Agnès ou la novice, Rondeau - Double

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    13. VII. La laborieuse, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    14. VIII. Allemande, La pruscienne francisée

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    15. IX. La dolescente

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    16. X. L'angélique, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    17. XI. La mimi, Rondeau - Double

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    18. XII. La cémonville, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    19. XIII. La landella, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    20. I. Les forgerons, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    21. II. Le concert des faunes, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    22. III. Allemande, L'augustine

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    23. IV. La douce et piquante, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    24. V. La nanette, Rondeaux I-II

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    25. VI. Les coqs gris et noirs, Rondeau - Double des coqs gris et noirs

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    26. VII. Tambourin ou musette provençale

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    27. VIII. Allemande, L'absence ou le solitaire

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    28. IX. La fleury, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    29. X. La hortense

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    30. XI. Le dépit

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    31. XII. La miranda

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    32. XIII. La capricieuse, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    33. XIV. L'aimable Thérèse, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    34. XV. L'étinçelante

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    35. XVI. Menuets I-II-III, Rondeau

      Composer: Pierre-Claude Foucquet

      Performer: Fernando de Luca


First recordings of the complete surviving keyboard works by a forgotten figure of the French Baroque.

Brilliant Classics has revived the names of many composers from obscure corners of history. Few of them have been as buried by the past as Pierre-Claude Foucquet, who was active in Paris in the first half of the 18th century. Yet anyone listening to this first complete recording of his music for harpsichord will surely wonder why. Three volumes survive: two books of Pièces de Clavecin, and a third entitled Caractères de la Paix. This was the first to be published in 1749. By then Foucquet had been organist at the magnificent Church of Saint-Eustache for some years, and he would go on to take up the post of titulaire at Notre Dame. He was following in a distinguished family line, his father and grandfather both having been organists at Saint-Eustache.

Foucquet must have been a richly talented organist and improviser in the French tradition, and this latter quality is abundantly and delightfully preserved by the character pieces which make up these harpsichord suites. They belong to the same tradition as the Pièces de Clavecin of Couperin, d’Anglebert and Rameau, but they have a palette of colour and a dramatic imagination of their own. The third movement of Caractères de la Paix is titled ‘Le Feu’, and it fairly sets the instrument alight with pounding explosions and ribbons of flame, demanding all the resources of both an instrument and interpreter at full stretch.

From 1751 and 1758 respectively, the second and third books are hardly less full of vividly pictorial representations – of chickens and champagne, of figures lamenting and working and praying in a gallery of probably real people whose names are now lost to us but whose personality lives on in the keyboard music of French composers from the time.

This album of Foucquet is a notable addition to the Brilliant Classics discography of Fernando De Luca, which already includes complete surveys of other unfamiliar names from the time such as Jollage, Moyreau and most recently Pierre-Thomas Dufour (96771).