Release Date: 28 February 2020
Label: DUX Recording Producers
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5902547015477
Composer/Series: Music For Harpsichord By Louis, Francois & Arman-Louis Couperin
Description
The album by Dorota Cybulska-Amsler highlights virtuoso works from the Couperin family. Alongside Francois "le Grande" Sizième Ordre de clavecin from Deuxième livre de clavecin (Book 2, 1717) we have his uncle Louis Couperin's Pièces de clavecin from The Bauyn Manuscript (ca. 1658) as well as his cousin Armand-Louis Couperin's Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1 (1751).
Nowadays, the work of Francois Couperin is commonly associated with harpsichord music of the turn of the Baroque and Classicism. His elaborate miniatures and suites, plenty of brilliant ornaments, are now almost inextricably linked to the canonical harpsichord repertoire. However, Francois was not the only composer in the Couperin family. As the Dorota Cybulska-Amsler points out, names of members of the Couperin family, originating from the Chaumes-en-Brie region, are already in documents from the 16th century. In 1586, Mathurin Couperin (ca. 1569–ca. 1640), is still making a living mainly from farming, but he obtains the right to practice music for remuneration. His son, Charles I (1595–1654) goes on to be the founder of a musical dynasty.
Tracklisting
Chor "Astrolabium", Tomasz Drozdek T.ETNO, Kinga Litowska
Monika Plachta, Chor Mieszany Katedry Wawelskiej, Andrzej Korzeniowski, Pawel Wajrak, Katarzyna Luk
Roberta Mameli, Adam Kruzel, Polski Chor Kameralny, Sinfonia Varsovia, Jan Lukaszewski
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
Cracow Golden Quintet
Capella Warmiensis Restituta, Ingrida Gapova, Kacper Szelazek, Aleksander Rewinski, Piotr Pieron
Adnieszka Rehlis, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Magdalena Blum
Roksana Kwasnikowska, Krzysztof Stanienda
Accademia del Piacere; Fahmi Alqhai; Quiteria Munoz
Sally Potter
Capricornus Consort Basel
Isaac Makhdoomi; Ensemble Piccante
Ensemble ArtChoral; Matthias Maute
Arianna Art Ensemble
Steven Isserlis
Marie Stockmarr Becker & Ilaria Macedonio
