Download, Couperin, L (composer)
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We very quickly learn just how characterful Desandre can be with her amused, laughing reactions to women in battle in ‘Non posso far’, and the dark glitter of her voice in the melancholic ‘Lasciatemi... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Female Singer of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Special offer. The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music
Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)
Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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What strikes me most about this recording is the judicious use of registrations and stops by harpsichordist Brice Sailly. This not only gives the necessary timbral variety to the various movements,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Clavecin
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Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie
RecommendedAndreas 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. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Yates is equally delicate and decisive in the offerings by Chambonnières, and thus joins the likes of Terence Charlston, Davitt Moroney and Skip Sempé as respected interpreters of this repertoire...Authoritative... — More…
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Both connoisseurs and newcomers will find a great deal to savour in this exquisitely conceived album. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Instrumental Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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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,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique baroque instrumentale
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Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe et ses Filles
Philippe Pierlot (soloist), Lucile Boulanger (soloist), Rolf Lislevand (soloist), Myriam Rignol (soloist)
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London Baroque display their accustomed polish and élan, the violin-playing wonderfully declamatory (especially in the Rebel), the continuo-playing highly cultivated. — More…
