The Couperin Family - Harpsichord Music / Alard

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Label
Marchvivo
Release Date
January 13, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Francois Couperin, Louis Couperin, Armand-Louis Couperin
    • PERFORMER
      Benjamin Alard
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2023
    • UPC
      8436605991467
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MV 007
    • LABEL
      Marchvivo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prélude à l'imitation de Monsieur Froberger, BG 6

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    2. Allemande, BG 100

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    3. Courante La Mignone, BG 105

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    4. Sarabande, BG 109

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    5. La Piémontoise, BG 102

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    6. Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher, BG 81 (Bauyn Manuscript, F-Pn Rés. Vm7 675, folio 49, 49v)

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    7. Chaconne in D Minor, BG 55

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    8. Prelude No. 7 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    9. Prelude No. 3 in G Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    10. Prelude No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    11. Prelude No. 4 in F Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    12. Prelude No. 2 in D Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    13. Allemande in D Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    14. Prelude No. 5 in A Major

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    15. Prelude No. 8 in E Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    16. Prelude No. 6 in B Minor

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    17. Le rossignol-en-amour - Double du rossignol

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    18. La linote-efarouchee

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    19. Les fauvetes plaintives

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    20. Le carillon de Cithére

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    21. Le petit-rien

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    22. XVII. La Chéron

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    23. XVIII. L’Affligée

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    24. XXV. La Françoise

      Composer: Armand-Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    25. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre in B-Flat Major: Les baricades mistérieuses (vivement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard

    26. Chaconne in F Major, BG 78

      Composer: Louis Couperin

      Performer: Benjamin Alard


This latest MarchVivo release is a remastering of the concert given by Benjamin Alard at the Fundación Juan March on 1 February 2020 as part of a series entitled The Couperins at the harpsichord. The album focuses on the stylistic connections between different members of the most significant family in the history of the French Baroque: the Couperins. The harpsichord epitomized the intimacy and sophistication of salon music and, with the repertoire they composed for their instrument, the clavecinistes français helped forge a distinctive national style. This was renewed and enlivened by successive generations of the Couperin dynasty as they introduced innovative aspects of contemporary Italian style into their works, thereby creating an eloquent new idiom that was to have a lasting influence on the history of keyboard music.