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Louis Couperin: Suites for Harpsichord

Christophe Rousset (harpsichord Ioannes Couchet du Musée des Instruments)

Rousset is just the sort of player to take advantage with his precise yet silken touch and immense authority in the French harpsichord style, which sees contrapuntal lines delineated with clarity,... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…

Release Date: 31st Aug 2018
Catalogue No: HMM90250102
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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Christophe Rousset plays Louis Couperin

Christophe Rousset (harpsichord Louis Denis 1658 restored by Reinhard von Nagel 2004-5)

Rousset combines meticulous fingerwork and attention to the music's intricacies with rhetorical gestures, balletic energy and a dramatic flair informed by his long experience directing French... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, More…

Release Date: 26th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: AP006
Label: Aparté
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie

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Andreas Staier (anon. French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4)

a satisfying issue on a fine-sounding and sympathetically recorded mid-18th-century harpsichord. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, More…

Release Date: 11th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: HMC902143
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 74 minutes

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Couperin, L: Harpsichord Suites

Skip Sempé (harpsichord by Bruce Kennedy, 1985, after a French model)

Louis Couperin, less famous than his nephew, François 'Le Grand', was nevertheless one of the greatest harpsichord composers of the 17th century, a creator of suites of beautifully honed miniatures... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…