'La Sophie' - Popular Harpsichord Music / Sophie Yates

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
August 1, 1996
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH DUPHLY COUPERIN RAMEAU
    • PERFORMER
      Sophie Yates
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 01, 1996
    • UPC
      095115059821
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 0598
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. [Allegro]

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    3. III. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    4. Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: Rondeau: La Pothouin

      Composer: Jacques Duphly

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    5. Pieces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre: Les baricades misterieuses

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    6. Pieces de clavessin avec une methode pour la mechanique des doigts: Rondeau: Les cyclopes

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    7. I. Prelude

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    8. II. Allemande

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    9. III. Courante

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    10. IV. Air and Variations, "Harmonious Blacksmith"

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    11. Pieces de clavecin, Book 1: 4th Ordre: Le reveil-matin

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    12. Premier livre de pieces de clavecin, Suite No. 3: No. 15. Le Coucou

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    13. Pieces de clavecin, Book 4: 26th Ordre: La Sophie

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    14. Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K.513/L.S3/P.176: Moderato e molto allegro - Presto

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    15. Harpsichord Sonata in A Major, K.24/L.495/P.80: Presto

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    16. La poule (The hen)

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Performer: Sophie Yates

    17. Gavotte and Variations

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Performer: Sophie Yates


Recorded in: St Bartholemew's Church, Orford, Suffolk 11-13 December 1995 Producer(s) Gary Cole Sound Engineer(s) Gary Cole Richard Smoker (Assistant)

REVIEW

Yates shows lots of vivacity as well as the crisp neatness we have come to expect of her. The finale of the Italian Concerto, for example, simply bubbles with joyousness, as does the exuberant bravura A major Sonata by Scarlatti. She is admirably precise in the Rameau gavotte and variations, direct and simple in Le coucou, brings real brio to the Courante of the Handel suite (she treats its Allemande rather freely); her performance of the unusually shaped C major Sonata by Scarlatti – a quiet pastoral followed by rural bagpiping and then noisy revelry – is excellent. But to me one of the highlights of her recital is Duphly’s superb melancholy rondeau: I have heard it played with greater gravitas, but it is entirely convincing in her hands; and the much-employed low register of her Goujon-type harpsichord sounds very fine.

--Gramophone