Pieces de Clavecin
Pieces de Clavecin 6: Forqueray Forever
It has been a wonderful year for Forqueray: Two fresh releases paved the way for a desperately desired reissue.
Pieces de Clavecin 6: Forqueray Forever
It has been a wonderful year for Forqueray: Two fresh releases paved the way for a desperately desired reissue.
Pièces de Clavecin 5.
It’d be pleasure enough merely to listen to this 1751 Jean-Henri Hemsch doing anything. As it happens, Haas offers perhaps the best, newest Le Grand on the market.
Pièces de Clavecin 5.
It’d be pleasure enough merely to listen to this 1751 Jean-Henri Hemsch doing anything. As it happens, Haas offers perhaps the best, newest Le Grand on the market.
Pièces de Clavecin 4: Royer, D’Anglebert
Royer had a brief but illustrious career. He taught the King’s children, managed the Concert Spirituel, and had several operas performed at Versailles. A 1742 police blotter reports a fight between Royer and Rameau…
Pièces de Clavecin 4: Royer, D’Anglebert
Royer had a brief but illustrious career. He taught the King’s children, managed the Concert Spirituel, and had several operas performed at Versailles. A 1742 police blotter reports a fight between Royer and Rameau…
Pièces de Clavecin 3: Le Grand, Marpourg, Les Forquerays,etc.
We are reminded that Couperin said: “I have called my works Orders, although I could have called them Disorders just as accurately.”
Pièces de Clavecin 3: Le Grand, Marpourg, Les Forquerays,etc.
We are reminded that Couperin said: “I have called my works Orders, although I could have called them Disorders just as accurately.”
Pièces de Clavecin 2: Jean-Philippe Rameau
The composer, rumored to have been gaunt and short-tempered, earned greater attention for his 1722 Treatise on Harmony than his music or organ playing had by then achieved.
Pièces de Clavecin 2: Jean-Philippe Rameau
The composer, rumored to have been gaunt and short-tempered, earned greater attention for his 1722 Treatise on Harmony than his music or organ playing had by then achieved.
Pieces de Clavecin 1: Francois Couperin
The first musical Couperin was a farmer, but his progeny, male and female, taught French royalty and kept an organ post in the family for 173 years at the Church of Saint-Gervais in Paris.
Pieces de Clavecin 1: Francois Couperin
The first musical Couperin was a farmer, but his progeny, male and female, taught French royalty and kept an organ post in the family for 173 years at the Church of Saint-Gervais in Paris.