Louis Couperin: Suites

Alessandrini has gathered some of them, and a few by other composers, into three suites, performing them on a rich-sounding harpsichord with the requisite Gallic liquid elegance. — Sunday Times, 15th September 2019 More…

Release Date: 6th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: OP30577
Label: Naive

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Baroque Instrumental

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Couperin, L: Suite in A minor

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Couperin, L: Suite in F major

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Couperin, L: Suite in D minor

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

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At the harpsichord, Rinaldo Alessandrini creates several ‘suites de danse’ from the magnificent output of Louis Couperin.

“Louis Couperin’s inspiration is distinguished by its innovative and exploratory content: far from solutions of convenience, his passion is transformed into new and surprising harmonic and rhythmic solutions. His counterpoint becomes the vector of a complexity generally unknown in the keyboard music of his time. The combination of such a tumultuous talent with the grace and nobility of the musical language of seventeenth Century France generates a result that opens out onto unpredictable semantic and expressive horizons.” - Rinaldo Alessandrini

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15th September 2019

Alessandrini has gathered some of them, and a few by other composers, into three suites, performing them on a rich-sounding harpsichord with the requisite Gallic liquid elegance.

22nd September 2019

The dark colours and resonant harpsichord sound are alluring, echoing Saint-Évremond’s contemporary treatise: “Passion must be fully displayed, but never exaggerated.”

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