Couperin - Les Nations, Volume 2

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Label: Chandos - Chaconne

Cat No: CHAN0729

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd October 2006

Works

Couperin, Francois

L'Art de toucher le clavecin

» Prelude no.2 in D minor

» Prelude no.3 in G minor

Les Gouts Reunis or Nouveaux Concerts

» no.13 in G major

Les Nations

» III L'Imperiale

» IV La Piemontoise 'L'astree'

Artists

The Purcell Quartet
Rebeka Rusó (viola de gamba)

Works

Couperin, Francois

L'Art de toucher le clavecin

» Prelude no.2 in D minor

» Prelude no.3 in G minor

Les Gouts Reunis or Nouveaux Concerts

» no.13 in G major

Les Nations

» III L'Imperiale

» IV La Piemontoise 'L'astree'

Artists

The Purcell Quartet
Rebeka Rusó (viola de gamba)

About

François Couperin was the finest composer at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King,. In view of the fact that Versailles was the most vainglorious court in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, it is remarkable to realise that Couperin was both personally and artistically discreet and modest. His musical portraits of people and his descriptions of scenes and events were more often intimate, comic and tender than pompously ceremonial. He wrote some extremely beautiful and genuinely spiritual music for ecclesiastical use and produced instrumental music for both strings and woodwind for the delectation of the King and nobility.

Couperin greatly admired Italian baroque composers such as Corelli, and his sonatas demonstrate his lifelong commitment to uniting, in his music, the best of both French and Italian musical conventions. Les Nations is the title under which Couperin published a collection of four large-scale sonatas, and the final two are recorded here, along with one of the Concerts royaux and two preludes from L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin. The first volume was excellently well received, and it is a delight to complete the set.

There are few recordings of Les Nations, a collection of sonatas/suites in which Couperin further developed the style established in his famous sets of Concerts royaux, yet the work contains some of Couperin’s most expressive and inventive music. The composer’s use of dance forms in these works ensures a wide spectrum of mood and colour. This is the second, concluding volume of Les Nations.

The Purcell Quartet is one of the most distinguished authentic-performance groups today, whose baroque recordings on the Chaconne label are highly respected.

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