COUPERIN; FRANÇOIS

Bach and Couperin/Landowska

Jed Distler

These live performances stem from Wanda Landowska’s Frick Collection concerts in New York, broadcast in the early 1950s. Little if any interpretive differences distinguish the

Couperin: Les Nations, etc./Purcell Quartet

Anastasia Tsioulcas

The Purcell Quartet (Catherine Mackintosh & Catherine Weiss, violins; Richard Boothby, bass viol; and Robert Woolley, bass) is building up quite a nice discography for

Couperin: Concert dans le gout, etc./Sempe

John Greene

How delightful to have a superb new CD recording of the Concert dans Le Goût Théâtral–and more! Offered here is an informed reconstruction comprised of

Couperin: Duos for harpsichords/Christie, Rousset

ClassicsToday

These duets for harpsichords by François Couperin are significant because they emerged during the period in which French composers were trying to counter the style

THE VIRTUOSO HARPSICHORD

ClassicsToday

François Couperin published four books of pieces for the clavecin (or harpsichord) in his lifetime, and though the compositions are organized into suites, they were

Couperin: Lecons de tenebres

ClassicsToday

Unlike most of his contemporaries, who wrote grand pieces for large forces, François Couperin preferred to pen compositions for one or two solo voices and

Baroque trio sonatas

David Vernier

First–this is a very well played and recorded program of Baroque trio sonatas, featuring works by several of the period’s most prominent composers. The “big”