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Special offer. Couperin: Concerts Royaux

Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel

Couperin: Concerts Royaux
This album is an elegant and stylish manifestation of ‘le bon goût ’ in Couperin’s music. Gallon and Boutineau also make a compelling case for further instances of repertoire reimagined for...

BBC Music Magazine, May 20245 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Couperin: Concerts Royaux

Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel

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This album is an elegant and stylish manifestation of ‘le bon goût ’ in Couperin’s music. Gallon and Boutineau also make a compelling case for further instances of repertoire reimagined for...

BBC Music Magazine, May 20245 out of 5 stars

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Pierre Gallon and Matthieu Boutineau offer an opportunity to rediscover Couperin’s Concerts Royaux in a version for two harpsichords, a rare combination, yet one of which the composer to the Sun King was especially fond.

Here is an interpretation at once brilliant and moving of these works full of tenderness, gaiety and invention, a veritable stylistic turning point between the twilight of the Grand Siècle and the dawn of the Enlightenment.

  • Release date: 15th Mar 2024
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Catalogue number: HMM902725
  • Length: 61 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Couperin, F: Concert Royal No. 1 in G (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Work length10:17
  • Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
I. Prélude. Gravement
Track length2:34
II. Allemande. Légèrement
Track length2:07
III. Sarabande. Mesuré
Track length2:37
IV. Menuet en trio
Track length1:12
V. Gavotte
Track length0:48
VI. Gigue. Légèrement
Track length0:59
Couperin, F: Concert Royal No. 2 in D
Work length14:20
  • Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel
I. Prélude. Gracieusement (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Theorbo)
Track length1:35
II. Allemande fuguée. Gaiement (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Track length2:25
III. Air tendre (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Theorbo)
Track length3:40
IV. Air contrefugué. Vivement (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Theorbo)
Track length3:00
V. Échos. Tendrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Track length3:40
Couperin, F: Concert Royal No. 3 in A (Version for 2 Harpsichords): I. Prélude. Lentement
Work length1:47
  • Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
Couperin, F: Pièces de clavecin, Book 2, Ordre No. 9: Allemande for 2 Harpsichords
Work length4:27
  • Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
Couperin, F: Concert Royal No. 3 in A (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Work length14:08
  • Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
II. Allemande. Légèrement
Track length2:07
III. Courante
Track length1:52
IV. Sarabande grave
Track length3:04
V. Gavotte
Track length1:18
VI. Musette. Naïvement
Track length2:36
VII. Chaconne légère
Track length3:11
Couperin, F: Concert Royal No. 4 in E
Work length16:28
  • Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel
I. Prélude. Gravement (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Track length1:49
II. Allemande. Légèrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Baroque Guitar)
Track length1:46
III. Courante française. Galamment (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Baroque Guitar)
Track length2:10
IV. Courante à l'italienne. Gaiement (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Track length2:56
V. Sarabande. Très tendrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Track length3:20
VI. Rigaudon. Légèrement et marqué (Version for 2 Harpsichords)
Track length1:30
VII. Forlane en rondeau. Gaiement (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Baroque Guitar)
Track length2:57

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Awards and reviews

May 2024

This album is an elegant and stylish manifestation of ‘le bon goût ’ in Couperin’s music. Gallon and Boutineau also make a compelling case for further instances of repertoire reimagined for two harpsichords
5 out of 5 stars

May 2024

As they skip their way through the final jaunty Forlane en rondeau, you realise they have brought nothing but joy.
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