Louis Couperin: Suites

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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
Length: 79 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Baroque Instrumental

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Couperin, L: Suite in A minor

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II. Allemande "L'amiable"

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III. Courante "La mignone"

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IV. Courante II

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V. Sarabande

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VI. Menuet de Poitou

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VII. Double

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VIII. Gavotte de Monsieur Handel

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IX. Double de la gavotte oy dessus

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X. Pavane angloise

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XI. Passacaille del Seig

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XII. Gigue de Monsieur Froberger

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Couperin, L: Suite in F major

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III. Courante I

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IV. Courante II

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V. Sarabande

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VI. Gigue

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VII. Chaconne

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VIII. Tombeau de Monsieur de Blancrocher

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Couperin, L: Suite in D minor

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II. Allemande

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V. Sarabande

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VI. Gigue

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VII. Simphonie

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VIII. Gavotte

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IX. La pastourelle

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X. Canaries

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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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