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Francois Couperin: Portraits (Live)

Contemporary Dramatic Virtuosic Exotic Romantic
$20.99

Details

Composer
Francois Couperin
Artist
Christophe Rousset
Format
CD
Label
Marchvivo
Released
Jul 04, 2025
Catalog #
MV013
UPC
8435725604806

About

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.

Tracklist 30 tracks

  1. 1 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 1 in C Major 01:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  2. 2 La Castelane 03:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    La Castelane
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  3. 3 Les graces naturéles 03:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Les graces naturéles
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  4. 4 Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 25th Ordre in E-Flat Major - C Major - C Minor: La Monflambert 01:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 25th Ordre in E-Flat Major - C Major - C Minor: La Monflambert
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  5. 5 Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La favorite 03:54
    Track
    5
    Title
    Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La favorite
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  6. 6 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 2 in D Minor 01:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 2 in D Minor
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  7. 7 L'Antonine 01:22
    Track
    7
    Title
    L'Antonine
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  8. 8 La Charoloise 00:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    La Charoloise
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  9. 9 Allemande in D Minor 01:24
    Track
    9
    Title
    Allemande in D Minor
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  10. 10 Prelude No. 3 in G Minor 00:57
    Track
    10
    Title
    Prelude No. 3 in G Minor
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  11. 11 La Ménetou 02:54
    Track
    11
    Title
    La Ménetou
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  12. 12 La Chazé 04:35
    Track
    12
    Title
    La Chazé
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  13. 13 Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 20th Ordre in G Major-Minor: La Princesse Marie 03:06
    Track
    13
    Title
    Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 20th Ordre in G Major-Minor: La Princesse Marie
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  14. 14 La Bourbonnoise 01:05
    Track
    14
    Title
    La Bourbonnoise
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  15. 15 La Milordine 01:50
    Track
    15
    Title
    La Milordine
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  16. 16 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 4 in F Major 01:23
    Track
    16
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 4 in F Major
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  17. 17 La Verneüil 03:19
    Track
    17
    Title
    La Verneüil
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  18. 18 La Verneüilléte 01:29
    Track
    18
    Title
    La Verneüilléte
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  19. 19 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 5 in A Major 02:39
    Track
    19
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 5 in A Major
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  20. 20 Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 15th Ordre in A Minor-Major: La régente 04:17
    Track
    20
    Title
    Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 15th Ordre in A Minor-Major: La régente
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  21. 21 Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: 5th Ordre in A Major-Minor: La Villers 03:59
    Track
    21
    Title
    Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: 5th Ordre in A Major-Minor: La Villers
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  22. 22 Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 9th Ordre in A Major-Minor: La Princesse de Sens 01:59
    Track
    22
    Title
    Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 9th Ordre in A Major-Minor: La Princesse de Sens
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  23. 23 Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 15th Ordre in A Minor-Major: La Princesse de Chabeüil, ou La muse de Monaco 02:12
    Track
    23
    Title
    Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 15th Ordre in A Minor-Major: La Princesse de Chabeüil, ou La muse de Monaco
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  24. 24 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 6 in B Minor 01:34
    Track
    24
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 6 in B Minor
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  25. 25 La Raphaéle 05:27
    Track
    25
    Title
    La Raphaéle
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  26. 26 La Morinéte 01:46
    Track
    26
    Title
    La Morinéte
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  27. 27 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 7 in B-Flat Major 02:04
    Track
    27
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 7 in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  28. 28 Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre in B-Flat Major: La Bersan 02:55
    Track
    28
    Title
    Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre in B-Flat Major: La Bersan
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  29. 29 L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 8 in E Minor 01:17
    Track
    29
    Title
    L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prelude No. 8 in E Minor
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset
  30. 30 Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 12th Ordre in E Major-Minor: La boulonoise 03:31
    Track
    30
    Title
    Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 12th Ordre in E Major-Minor: La boulonoise
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    François Couperin
    Performer
    Christophe Rousset