Armand-Louis Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
Rousset knowns instinctively how to impose registrations and a good selection of tempo variations to bring out the vagaries of the music. His interpretations are outstanding, and his choice...
Armand-Louis Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
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Rousset knowns instinctively how to impose registrations and a good selection of tempo variations to bring out the vagaries of the music. His interpretations are outstanding, and his choice...
About
Armand-Louis Couperin - François Couperin (‘le Grand’) was his father’s cousin - was regarded as one of the finest musicians of his time and his compositions, though little known today, provide us with precious evidence of the brilliance of the French harpsichord school and the skills of one of its most virtuosic representatives.
This is the first ever recording of Armand-Louis Couperin’s sensuous and very original Pièces de clavecin, op. 1.
Playing on a period instrument by Jean-Claude Goujon, now in the Musée de la Musique in Paris, Christophe Rousset brings out all the unique flavour of this music.
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Awards and reviews
March/April 2021
Rousset knowns instinctively how to impose registrations and a good selection of tempo variations to bring out the vagaries of the music. His interpretations are outstanding, and his choice of instrument fully immerses us into the world of the 18th century Parisian salon.
December 2020
Rousset is an ideal interpreter, with a light, effortless approach and an easy mastery of the often cluttered ornamentation, and he has a genuine interpretative affinity for music that can be, at times, too showy for its own substance...The composer held nothing back, and neither does the performer.
