Francois Couperin: Portraits (Live)

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Label
Marchvivo
Release Date
July 4, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Francois Couperin
    • PERFORMER
      Christophe Rousset
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 04, 2025
    • UPC
      8435725604806
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MV013
    • LABEL
      Marchvivo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    2. La Castelane

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    3. Les graces naturéles

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    4. Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 25th Ordre in E-Flat Major - C Major - C Minor: La Monflambert

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    5. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La favorite

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    6. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 2 in D Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    7. L'Antonine

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    8. La Charoloise

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    9. Allemande in D Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    10. Prelude No. 3 in G Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    11. La Ménetou

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    12. La Chazé

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    13. Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 20th Ordre in G Major-Minor: La Princesse Marie

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    14. La Bourbonnoise

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    15. La Milordine

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    16. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 4 in F Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    17. La Verneüil

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    18. La Verneüilléte

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    19. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 5 in A Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    20. Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 15th Ordre in A Minor-Major: La régente

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    21. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: 5th Ordre in A Major-Minor: La Villers

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    22. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 9th Ordre in A Major-Minor: La Princesse de Sens

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    23. Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 15th Ordre in A Minor-Major: La Princesse de Chabeüil, ou La muse de Monaco

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    24. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 6 in B Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    25. La Raphaéle

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    26. La Morinéte

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    27. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 7 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    28. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre in B-Flat Major: La Bersan

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    29. L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 8 in E Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset

    30. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 12th Ordre in E Major-Minor: La boulonoise

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Christophe Rousset


This live recording immortalizes Christophe Rousset's performance at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid on January 8, 2025, a featured event in the Earning a Living concert series. Francois Couperin's keyboard compositions illuminate the role of royal patronage as the modus vivendi for musicians of the Early Modern period. Couperin's treatise, L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin, is here interwoven with a selection of his Pieces de clavecin, giving rise to a portrait gallery in music, each inspired by anonymous figures who inhabited the French court. This set of pieces de caractere, whose allusive and encoded meanings remain largely enigmatic today, is presented in groupings by tonality, each offering a window into the refined world of Baroque palace life and it's intricate web of connections.