L'Unique - Harpsichord Music of Francois Couperin / Vinikour

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
April 24, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      COUPERIN, FRANCOIS
    • PERFORMER
      Jory Vinikour
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 24, 2020
    • UPC
      735131919425
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 194
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Les moissoneurs (gayement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    2. Les langueurs-tendres

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    3. Le gazoüillement (gracieusement et coule)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    4. La Bersan (légèrement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    5. Les baricades mistérieuses (vivement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    6. Les bergeries (naivement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    7. La commére (vivement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    8. Le moucheron (légèrement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    9. La Ménetou (gracieusement, sans lenteur)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    10. Les petits âges: La muse naissante

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    11. Les petits âges: L'enfantine

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    12. Les petits âges: L'adolescente

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    13. Les petits âges: Les délices

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    14. La Basque

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    15. La Chazé (tres lie, sans lenteur)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    16. Les amusemens (sans lenteur)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    17. La Raphaéle

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    18. Allemande L'Ausoniéne

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    19. Premiere courante

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    20. Seconde courante

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    21. Sarabande L'unique

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    22. Gavotte

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    23. Rondeau

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    24. Gigue

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    25. La Monéte

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour

    26. Passacaille

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Jory Vinikour


Two-time Grammy Award-nominated harpsichordist Jory Vinikour plays historically groundbreaking works by François Couperin (1668–1733) on an album comprising three inventive Couperin suites — the composer called them “Ordres” — combining traditional French Baroque dance movements with witty and atmospheric character pieces — miniature tone poems for solo harpsichord. Couperin’s suites “are elegantly composed, concealing a complex, allusive and varied emotional world behind their highly wrought surface” (Norton Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music). Chicago-born, French-trained harpsichordist Vinikour is especially enamored of Couperin’s Ordres Nos. 6, 7, and 8, calling them “remarkable” for their harmonically driven melodic invention and atmospheric unity within each suite. Highlights include the celebrated Les Baricades Mistérieuses from Ordre No. 6, which England’s The Guardian calls “shimmering, kaleidoscopic and seductive, a sonic trompe l’oeil.” The compelling Les Amusemens from Ordre No. 7 is irresistibly sweet and melancholic. Order No. 8 offers masterful examples of established forms, culminating with a dramatic Passacaille.

REVIEWS:

L’Unique presents all the wit and melancholy of Vinikour’s distinctive interpretations of the sixth, seventh, and eighth suites.

– BBC Radio 3 Record Review Extra

Playfully and decorously brought music to life by American harpsichordist Jory Vinikour. The recording places the instrument in a really lifelike perspective.

– BBC Record Review