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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - François Couperin, Henry du Mont: Motets (2004)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - François Couperin, Henry du Mont: Motets (2004)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - François Couperin, Henry du Mont: Motets (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 600 Mb | Total time: 74:28+72:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 7243 5 62419 2 | Recorded: 1992, 1993

Before you play the first track of this disc, make sure you're in quiet surroundings and ready to listen closely. You'll hear a pure yet sensuous soprano voice slip gently out of the silence and sing a melody that manages to be haunting and virtuosic at the same time–only to be followed by a similar voice doing the same thing. The two voices coil around each other (with some gleaming suspensions) for a full minute before instruments join them. And that's just the beginning of this marvelous disc of motets by François Couperin, a composer better known for his keyboard and chamber music. Most of these pieces were written to accompany the Elevation of the Host (the most solemn moment of the Roman Catholic liturgy), so you won't hear much exuberance.

The Kuijken Ensemble - François Couperin: Les Nations (1992)

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The Kuijken Ensemble - François Couperin: Les Nations (1992)

The Kuijken Ensemble - François Couperin: Les Nations (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 548 Mb | Total time: 50:43+50:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC9285/86 | Recorded: 1992

What is it that makes this 1992 recording of François Couperin's Les Nations by the Kuijken Ensemble so special? In a word, brotherhood. You see, the Kuijken Ensemble has the brothers Barthold, Sigiswald, and Wieland on transverse flute, violin, and viola da gamba and they play together with a combination of affection, aggression, appreciation, and wholehearted love that makes the ensemble like no other. Each brother a master of his instrument, and they understand Baroque music with a combination of intellect, emotion, and musicality that few other period instrument players can match.

John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XV (2012)

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John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XV (2012)

John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XV (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 402 Mb | Total time: 66:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34112 | Recorded: 2012

John Kitchen - uniquely familiar with Edinburgh's internationally acclaimed collections of early keyboard instruments - turns his attention to the world's most famous harpsichord, the Taskin harpsichord. The reign of Louis XV was the period during which the harpsichord gained its greatest popularity in France, and this glorious 1769 instrument by Pascal Taskin would have been the preferred choice of any composer. Here its opulent lushness is captured in the ideal acoustics of Scotland's oldest concert hall, St Cecilia's Hall. The Hall is also home to the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, which houses the Taskin harpsichord. The combination of instrument, venue, programme and performer creates a unique listening experience.

John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XIV (2013)

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John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XIV (2013)

John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XIV (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 531 Mb | Total time: 77:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34109 | Recorded: 2010

John Kitchen continues his much-lauded series of recordings from the instruments of the world-famous Roger Mirrey collection of keyboard instruments. Recorded in St Cecilia's Hall, Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall, this programme is specifically designed to highlight the unique qualities of the 1755 double-manual harpsichord by Luigi Baillon. Built in Cyteux, Burgundy, it has a very different sound from Parisian instruments of the time; cleaner and brighter in tone, it is the perfect vehicle for Kitchen's subtly nuanced playing, which brings the sophistication of the period to new life.

Les Ombres - François Couperin: Les Nations (2012)

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Les Ombres - François Couperin: Les Nations (2012)

Les Ombres - François Couperin: Les Nations (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 575 Mb | Total time: 115:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambronay | # AMY035 | Recorded: 1991

With this newly researched recording of Couperin's Les Nations, Les Ombres, a Baroque ensemble of the new European generation, boldly cross borders and barriers to share a vision of spiritual union beyond national divide.
Couperin was the very first composer in France to produce a trio sonata in the style of Corelli, which he composed when he was barely 22-years old. Not daring at first to declare openly his admiration for the Italian genius, he did not sign his own name to 'L’Astrée', written around 1691. It was finally published in 1726, in the collection known as 'Les Nations', where it became the opening ‘sonade’ of La Piémontoise.

Shin'ichiro Nakano - François Couperin: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour clavecin, Vol. 1 (2021)

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Shin'ichiro Nakano - François Couperin: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour clavecin, Vol. 1 (2021)

Shin'ichiro Nakano - François Couperin: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour clavecin, Vol. 1 (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 877 Mb | Total time: 02:18:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Rec-lab | # NIKU-9032 | Recorded: 2020

The true value of François Couperin's accomplishments, as told by Shinichiro Nakano, who has been working in the world of music for 35 years. The emotional world of these unique and varied works is presented with depth and freshness through his fluid and mature expression and occasional glimpses of playfulness. In his 35th year on the musical stage, Shinichiro Nakano will tell the story of the true value of François Couperin's accomplishments. Shin'ichiro Nakano, harpsichordist, was born in Kyoto in 1964 and graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1986. Performed in the Coupland Cycle of the Festival des Antiquaires in Versailles, France.

Les Ombres - Couperin, Colin de Blamont: Concert chez la Reine (2010)

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Les Ombres - Couperin, Colin de Blamont: Concert chez la Reine (2010)

Les Ombres - Couperin, Colin de Blamont: Concert chez la Reine (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 382 Mb | Total time: 68:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambronay Éditions | # AMY301 | Recorded: 2010

Launching Ambronay Editions' 'Jeunes Ensembles' collection, Concert chez la Reine opens a window on the French Enlightenment. Les Ombres, directed by Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre, contrast masterworks by Couperin le Grand with music from Colin de Blamont, master of the Kings chamber music to Louis XV, realised from manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale.

Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra - Versailles: L'île enchantée (2004)

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Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra - Versailles: L'île enchantée (2004)

Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra - Versailles: L'île enchantée (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 426 Mb | Total time: 68:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA 016 | Recorded: 2001

Even by the supremely high production standards of Alpha recordings, this issue is especially splendid. Entitled Versailles, L'ile enchantée, it fully lives up to its name. As directed by Skip Sempé, the widely varied program features music written for Louis XIV's pleasure palace, performed by the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra with mezzo soprano Guillemette Laurens and bass violist Jay Bernfeld. Each work is superbly selected, and every performance is absolutely idiomatic and wonderfully alive. There is wit and tenderness and elegance and, yes, nobility to their performances, which taken together form as much a portrait of the Sun King as the palace of Versailles itself.

Gustav Leonhardt - François Couperin: Works for Harpsichord (1997)

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Gustav Leonhardt - François Couperin: Works for Harpsichord (1997)

Gustav Leonhardt - François Couperin: Works for Harpsichord (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 505 Mb | Total time: 64:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 454 470-2 | Recorded: 1995

For almost 50 years, Gustav Leonhardt - harpsichordist, organist and, most recently, conductor - has counted among the most respected specialists in both the theory and practice of early music. Acclaimed for his numerous recordings of music ranging from keyboard masterpieces of the early Baroque to Mozart's sonatas, Leonhardt has played a critical role in bringing period-instrument performance into the mainstream of classical music life.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discothèque Idéale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Légende en 25 CDs (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6.86 Gb | Total time: 25 h 25 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony Music | # 88883719232

This is an excellent and varied selection of composers from the very well known like Palestrina, Monteverdi, Bach and Vivaldi, through the less famous but familiar like Frescobaldi, Sainte-Colombe and Zelenka, to the downright obscure. It is all delightful: the musicians are uniformly excellent, and include such great names as Gustav Leonhardt, Cantus Colln, Christopher Hogwood and so on. They give fine performances both of the familiar works and of the less familiar ones. Obviously there will be discs you like more than others and you may already have favourite versions of some works, but these discs are never less than very good and are often outstanding.

James Johnstone - François Couperin: Complete works for organ; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (2019)

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James Johnstone - François Couperin: Complete works for organ; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (2019)

James Johnstone - François Couperin: Complete works for organ; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 525 Mb | Total time: 47:45+53:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Metronome | # METCD1098 | Recorded: 2018

This release contains the complete works for organ by François Couperin, composer to the court of Louis XIV. James Johnstone continues his series of recordings on the great baroque organs of Europe on the 1699 organ by Julien Tribuot, Louis XIV’s organ builder, now in the Eglise St Martin in Seurre, Burgundy. This last surviving instrument by a revered builder is close to its original condition. A leading baroque organist, James Johnstone recorded these works as part of 350th anniversary celebrations of Couperin's birth in 2018, and completes Metronome’s survey of Couperin’s complete keyboard works.

Sophie Yates - French Baroque Harpsichord: D'Anglebert, Rameau, Couperin, Forqueray (1993)

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Sophie Yates - French Baroque Harpsichord: D'Anglebert, Rameau, Couperin, Forqueray (1993)

Sophie Yates - French Baroque Harpsichord: D'Anglebert, Rameau, Couperin, Forqueray (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 391 Mb | Total time: 71:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0545 | Recorded: 1992

Sophie Yates began her career by winning the international Erwin Bodky Competition at the Boston Early Music Festival, and as a result she was invited to tour and broadcast throughout the eastern states of America. She now performs regularly around Europe, the United States and Japan, and has also worked in Syria, Morocco and Western Australia. Known for her affinity with the French baroque, the music of the Iberian Peninsula and English virginals music, she has performed on most of the playable virginals surviving in Britain and is working on a long-term project to collect a book of contemporary English pieces for this instrument.

Sophie Yates - La Sophie: Popular Harpsichord Music of the 18th Century (1996)

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Sophie Yates - La Sophie: Popular Harpsichord Music of the 18th Century (1996)

Sophie Yates - La Sophie: Popular Harpsichord Music of the 18th Century (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 430 Mb | Total time: 71:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0598 | Recorded: 1995

This collection of 18th century harpsichord music brings together works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jacques Duphly, Francois Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, George Frederic Handel, Louis-Claude Daquin, and Guiseppe Domenico Scarlatti. The pieces go together nicely, not least because of the way in which Sophie Yates plays them.

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk: Bach, Merula, Mjelva, Lully, Baillie, Couperin, Rydvall (2022)

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Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk: Bach, Merula, Mjelva, Lully, Baillie, Couperin, Rydvall (2022)

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk: Bach, Merula, Mjelva, Lully, Baillie, Couperin, Rydvall (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 53:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARC Music | # NXW76158-2 | Recorded: 2022

Lodestar Trio blaze a trail with their unprecedented ‘baroque meets folk’ repertoire. With renewed interpretations of baroque classics (Bach, Lully, Couperin…), folk tunes and new compositions, they push the boundaries of their mystical and magical Scandinavian string instruments. With Max Baillie on violin, Olav Luksengård Mjelva on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Erik Rydvall on Swedish nyckelharpa, they skilfully showcase the dexterity of each instrument, bringing out new qualities, whilst paying tribute to the roots of a much-honoured musical period.

Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis - Oh ma belle Brunette (2022)

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Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis - Oh ma belle Brunette (2022)

Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis - Oh ma belle Brunette (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 339 Mb | Total time: 71:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA833 | Recorded: 2021

The term ‘brunette’ refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The compositional process, however, remained very similar: to write a short, tender song, dealing with themes of love or nature, which could be sung alone or accompanied by a harmonic instrument. The late seventeenth century also saw the appearance of an instrument that soon became a favourite of composers and amateur musicians: the German flute, now called the traverso or Baroque flute.