F Couperin - L’Unique: Harpsichord Music
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Label: Cedille Records
Cat No: CDR90000194
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 8th May 2020
Contents
Artists
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)Works
Pieces de clavecin IIArtists
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)About
Couperin’s suites “are elegantly composed, concealing a complex, allusive and varied emotional world behind their highly wrought surface” (Norton Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music).
Chicago-born, French-trained harpsichordist Vinikour is especially enamored of Couperin’s Ordres nos. 6, 7, and 8, calling them “remarkable” for their harmonically driven melodic invention and atmospheric unity within each suite.
Highlights include the celebrated Les Baricades mistérieuses from Ordre no.6, which The Guardian calls “shimmering, kaleidoscopic and seductive, a sonic trompe l’oeil.” The compelling Les Amusemens from Ordre no.7 is irresistibly sweet and melancholic. Ordre no.8 offers masterful examples of established forms, culminating with a dramatic Passacaille.
Vinikour performs on a harpsichord created for him in 2012 by England’s Tony Chinnery, modeled after an instrument by the French builder Pascal Taskin (1723–1793). Its rich sound is ideally suited to 18th-century French repertoire.
Vinikour’s 2019 Cedille album, 20th Century Harpsichord Concertos, drew international acclaim. Fanfare hailed it as “a terrific new release.” Classical Music Daily (UK) found Vinikour’s playing “truly spellbinding,” while Gramophone applauded his “outstanding, superbly engineered performances.” Classics Today asserted, “This is surely one of the discs of the year,” while praising Vinikour’s talent for “selecting instruments that invariably suit the music, and sound terrific in their own right.”
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