COUPERIN; FORQUERAY;
RAMEAU; DANDRIEU; DUPHLY Pièces
de Clavecin
François Couperin (1668-1733)
1. Septième Prélude
2. Les Baricades Mistérieuses
3. Les Bergeries
4. Le Moucheron
Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745)
5. La Forqueray
6. La Leclair
François Couperin
7. Les Délices
8. Le Petit-Rien
Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764)
9. La Livri
10. L'Enharmonique
11. L'Egyptienne
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
12. L'Harmonieuse
François Couperin
13. Premier Prélude
14. La Ténébreuse
15. Seconde Courante
16. La Lugubre
17. La Favorite
18. La Lutine
Jacques Duphly (1715-1789)
19. La Forqueray
Terence Charlston (harpsichord)
Deux-Elles DXL 917 [70 mins]
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This is a pleasing selection by Terence Charlston of 19 pieces of
18th Century French harpsichord music, a dozen by François
Couperin, many of them quite well known and including Les Délices,
from which the CD takes it title Les Délices de la Solitude.
They are chosen from the Suites in which these composers arranged
their pieces for publication, and played on modern copies of Ruckers and
Taskin instruments.
Forqueray worked at the court of Louis XIV, as did Couperin, and they played
together. Rameau's pieces were mostly published posthumously. Dandrieu was
a Parisian. Duphly died in 1789, a day after the French Revolution broke
out, 'symbolically bringing to a close the epoch of the
clavecinistes'.
Terence Charlston inaugurated the Historical Practice course as Head of Early
Music in the Royal Academy of Music, and he brings musicological knowledge
and fluent fingers to this music, the first of a projected series for Deux-Elles.
Charlston writes his own introductory notes which are adequate; track timings
might be useful for broadcasters. A very pleasing introduction to the genre,
as well recorded as played.
Peter Grahame Woolf
