Музыка и песни Couperin, François / Куперен Франсуа на CD

CD 1 "Columbia Records presents John Williams" - Bach: Lautensuite BWV 1006a; Werke von Albeniz, Tarrega, Turina, Ponce, Sagreras & Traditional Catalan +CD 2 "Virtuoso Music for Guitar" - Paganini: Grand Sonata op. 39; Dodgson: Partita Nr. 1 für Gitarre; Werke von Granados, Villa-Lobos, Falla, Castelnuovo-Tedesco +CD 3 "Two Favorite Guitar Concertos" - Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1 +CD 4 "More Virtuoso Music for Guitar" - Bach: Präludium, Fuge & Allegro BWV 998; Torroba: Aires de la Mancha; Werke von Mudarra, Reusner, Praetorius, Giuliani, Villa-Lobos +CD 5 - Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre; Dodgson: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1 +CD 6 - Haydn: Quartett für Laute, Violine, Viola & Cello E-Dur; Paganini: Terzetto für Violine, Cello & Gitarre +CD 7 "Virtuoso Variations for Guitar" - Werke von Bach, Dowland, Bacheler, Paganini, Giuliani, Sor +CD 8 - Giuliani: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1; Vivaldi: Konzert für Laute, 2 Violinen & Bc RV 93; Gitarrenkonzert A-Dur +CD 9 "Songs for Voice and Guitar" - Britten: Songs from the Chinese op. 58; Dodgson: 4 Poems of John Clare; Werke von Dowland, Anonymus, Rosseter, Jones, Pilkington, Bartlet +CD 10 "John Williams plays Spanish Music" - Falla: Der Dreispitz (Ausz.); Werke von Albeniz, Sanz, Rodrigo, Torroba, Granados, M. P. de Albeniz, & Traditional Catalan +CD 11 "Theodorakis - Songs of Freedom" - Theodorakis / Dodgson: Andalucia; Epitafios; 3 Songs +CD 12 "Music for Guitar and Harpsichord" - Straube: Sonaten für Gitarre & Bc Nr. 1-3; Werke von Ponce & Dodgson +CD 13 "Julian & John" - Lawes: Suite für 2 Gitarren; Carulli: Petit Duo Nr. 2; Sor: L'Encouragement op. 34; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte; Werke von Albeniz, Granados, Falla +CD 14 - Gowers: Chamber Concerto für Gitarre; D. Scarlatti: Sonaten K. 159, 175, 208, 213, 322, 380 +CD 15 - Previn: Gitarrenkonzert; Ponce: Concierto del sur +CD 16 "Music from England, Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico" - Ponce: Sonatina meridional; Sojo: 5 Venezuelan Melodies; Yocoh: Sakura; Werke von Dodgson, Villa-Lobos, Lauro, Crespo, Mangore +CD 17 "Julian and John / 2" - Carulli: Serenade für 2 Gitarren; Werke von Granados, Albeniz, Giuliani +CD 18 "Rhapsody" - Gowers: Rhapsody für Gitarre, elektrische Gitarren & elektrische Orgel; Villa-Lobos: 5 Präludien für Gitarre +CD 19 - Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Villa-Lobos: Gitarrenkonzert +CD 20 & 21 "John Williams plays Bach: The complete Lute Music on Guitar" - Bach: Lautensuiten BWV 995-997, 1006a; Präludium, Fuge & Allegro BWV 998; Präludium BWV 999; Fuge BWV 1000 +CD 22 "John Williams and Friends" - Vivaldi: Konzert für 2 Mandolinen, Streicher & Bc RV 532; Purcell: Triosonate für 2 Violinen & Bc Nr. 11; Werke von Bach, Telemann, Daquin, Bach, Mozart +CD 23 - Paganini: Sonaten für Violine & Gitarre op. 3 Nr. 6 & op. 64 Nr. 1; Sonata Concertata für Violine & Gitarre op. 61; Cantabile für Violine & Gitarre op. 17; Giuliani: Duo concertant für Violine & Gitarre +CD 24 - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1; Arnold: Serenade für Gitarre & Streichorchester op. 50; Dodgson: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 2 +CD 25 - Barrios: La catedral; Madrigal; Minuet; Mazurka appassionata; Estudio; Preludio; Un sueno en la floresta; Walzer op. 8 Nr. 3; Cueca; Aire de Zamba; Aconquija; Maxixe; Una limosna por el amor de Dios; Choro da saudade; Villancico de Navidad +CD 26 - Arnold: Gitarrenkonzert; Brouwer: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1 +CD 27 - Ponce: Variationen über "Folia de Espana" & Fuge; Preludio; Balletto; 3 Canciones populares mexicanas; Walzer; 3 Songs +CD 28 "Julian Bream & John Williams Live" - Telemann: Suite für 2 Lauten TWV 39: 1; Sor: Fantasie für 2 Gitarren op. 54; Brahms: 2. Satz aus dem Streichsextett Nr. 1; Faure: Dolly-Suite op. 56; Werke von Johnson, Debussy, Albeniz, Granados +CD 29 "Guitar Quintets" - Boccherini: Quintette für Gitarre & Streichquartett Nr. 5 & 6; Guastavino: Jeromita Linares +CD 30 "Echoes of Spain - Albeniz" - Albeniz: Suite Espanola Nr. 1 (Ausz.); Mallorca op. 202; Cordoba; Torre Bermeja; Cadiz; Tambra granadina; Tango +CD 31 "Stevie" - Gowers: Stevie (Soundtrack) +CD 32 "John Williams and Peter Hurford play Bach" - Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140; Fuge BWV 577; 3. Satz aus der Sonate für Cembalo & Violine BWV 1017; Triosonate BWV 530; 1. Satz aus dem Italienischen Konzert BWV 971; 3. Satz aus der Pastorale BWV 590; Trio BWV 1027a; 1.Satz aus der Französischen Suite BWV 817; Bouree aus der Englischen Suite BWV 807; 5. Satz aus der Englischen Suite BWV 807; Gavotte aus der Englischen Suite BWV 808; Gigue aus der Französischen Suite BWV 816 +CD 33 "Portrait of John Williams" - Vivaldi: Konzert für Laute, 2 Violinen & Bc RV 93; Werke von Lauro, Clare, Tarrega, Bach, Lennon / McCartney, Barrios, Brouwer, Myers, Yocoh +CD 34 "The Guitar Is The Song: A Folksong Collection" - Werke von Dyer-Bennet, Kati, Cardillo, Lauro, Curtis + irische, ungarische, äthiopische, schottische, englische und amerikanische Traditionals +CD 35 - Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasia para un gentilhombre +CD 36 - Bach: Konzert für Violine, Streicher & 3. Satz aus der Sonate für Violine solo BWV 1003; Händel: Orgelkonzert Nr. 5; Marcello: Konzert für Oboe, Streicher & Bc c-moll +CD 37 "Echoes of London" - Werke von McTell, Byrd, Purcell, Clare, Händel, Elgar, Sherwin, Wilson, Coward, Coates, Gregg +CD 38 - Hart: Konzert für Gitarre & Jazzorchester; 3 Pieces +CD 39 "Fragments of a Dream" - Werke von Salinas, Salinas / Manns, Salinas / Contreras, Pena, Garrido / Moya +CD 40 "The Baroque Album" - D. Scarlatti: Sonaten K. 159, 175, 213, 322, 380; Werke von Telemann, Bach, F. Couperin, Roncalli, Weiss +CD 41 "Spirit of the Guitar: Music of the Americas" - Werke von York, Barrios, Piazzolla, Ponce, Lauro, Brouwer, Byrd, Villa-Lobos, Sagreras, Crespo +CD 42 "Leyenda" - Werke von Salinas, Sabicas, Yupanqui, Pena, Quintana, Simone & Traditionals +CD 43 - Vivaldi: Konzerte für Violine, Streicher & Bc RV 230, 345 & 356; Konzert für 2 Mandolinen, Streicher & Bc RV 532; Triosonate für Violine, Laute & Bc RV 82; Konzert für Viola d'amore, Laut, Streicher & Bc RV 540; Konzert für Laute, 2 Violinen & Bc RV 93 +CD 44 - Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream; Folios; Toward the Sea; 12 Songs for Guitar; Vers, l'arc-en-ciel, Palma +CD 45 "Iberia" - Granados: Valses poeticos; Rodgrio: Invocacion y danza; Llobet: Canciones populares catalanas; Rodrigo: En los trigales; Albeniz: Iberia (Ausz.) +CD 46 "The Seville Concert" - Vivaldi: Konzert für Laute, 2 Violinen & Bc RV 93; Werke von Albeniz, Bach, D. Scarlatti, Yocoh, Koshkin, Barrios, Rodrigo +CD 47 "From Australia" - Sculthorpe: Nourlangie; From Kakadu; Into the Dreaming; Westlake: Antarctica +CD 48 "The Great Paraguayan" - Barrios: Walzer op. 8 Nr. 3 & 4; Preludio c-moll; Cueca; Maxixe; La catedral; Julia Florida; Una limosna por el amor de Dios; Mazurka appassionata; Las abejas; Medallon antiguo; Choro da saudade; Aire de Zamba; Aconquija; Preludio op. 5 Nr. 1; Un sueno en la floresta; Villancico de Navidad +CD 49 - Harvey: Concerto Antico; Gray: Gitarrenkonzert +CD 50 "The Mantis & The Moon" - Werke von Falla, Granados, Soler, Westlake, Houghton, O'Carolan, Brouwer, Madlem, Verdery, Hand, Bellinati, Takemitsu, Schostakowitsch +CD 51 "John Williams plays the Movies" - Filmmusik von Seal, Bryan Adams, North, Reg Presley, Rota, Mancini, Arlen, Morricone, Myers, Hupfeld, Legrand, Jones, Telson, Joplin, Bacalov, Williams +CD 52 "The Black Decameron" - Brouwer: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 4; Elogio de la danza; El Decameron negro; Hika: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu +CD 53 "The Guitarist John Williams" - Theodorakis: Epitafios; Domeniconi: Koyunbaba op. 19; Satie: Gymnopedie Nr. 3 & Gnossiennes Nr. 1 & 2; Williams: Aeolian Suite; Houghton: Stele +CD 54 - Schubert: Arpeggione-Sonate D. 821; Giuliani: Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1 +CD 55 "The Magic Box" - Werke von Bebey, Walker, Rahasimanana, Bebey, Williams, Mwenda, Martins, Sontonga +CD 56 "El Diablo Suelto" - Werke von Figueredo, Canonico, Carrillo, Lauro, Riera, Lopez, Gutierrez, Sojo, Guatirena, Lauro, Fernandez, Borges, Montes +CD 57 "Places Between" - Wiliams: Extra Time; Verdery: Peace, Love and Guitars; Werke von Rahasimanana, Etheridge, Canonico, Martins, Bebey, Holiday / Herzog +CD 58 "Collaborations" - Webern: 3 Lieder für Stimme, E-Klarinette & Gitarre op. 18; Werke von McTell, Albeniz, Elias, Rodgers, Kertsman, Weber, Copland, Falla, Robles, Chopin, Beethoven, Faure & Traditional +DVD "The Seville Concert" - Albeniz: Sevilla; Bach: Lautensuite BWV 1006a; D. Scarlatti: Sonate K. 213; Vivaldi: Konzert für Laute, 2 Violinen & Bc RV 93; Yocoh: Sakura; Koshkin: Usher Waltz; Albeniz: Asturias; Barrios: Un sueno en la floresta; Rodrigo: 2. Satz aus dem Concierto de Aranjuez

The present recording was made in the Galerie Dorée (Gilded Gallery) of the Banque de France. Couperin, who lived in the rue Neuve-des-Bons-Enfants, very close by, gave music lessons there to the Comte de Toulouse, whose town house the building was at the time. This inspirational venue for the performers is nowadays haunted by the presence of the composer, like a ghost in a chemise blanche.

The harpsichordist Blandine Verlet completes her previous record Couperin with a recording of the 13th and 18th so called “ordres” of the Third Book of his Harpsichord Pieces. Blandine Verlet is known for her unique interpretations: her tempi are sometimes voluntarily slower than prescribed but they are never heavy because she is animated by a healthy and lively breath. At the harpsichord, Blandine Verlet is carried by her writer’s delicate sensitivity. Indeed, the noble programme and a text of lyrical prose of her own match harmoniously in this book-record. She describes with a poetic realism engaging characters in their familiar and everyday settings. Such as in her subtle narratives, Blandine Verlet’s interpretations give a large place to the imaginary. The fantasy of her musical self is never erased in the name of an abstract idea of the work: the life of the score mingles with that of its interpreter.

Marin Marais possesses the grace, elegance and wit so appealing in the goût français of the eighteenth century. The character pieces of his last two books depict portraits, landscapes and little genre scenes in painterly fashion, and are an unsurpassed highpoint of the viol repertor

Following their distinguished interpretations by the criticism of the previously little-known "Apothéoses", and "Nations" of François Couperin, Les Ombres deliver a new reading of his sacred heritage. The Lessons of Darkness, or Lamentations published in 1714, testify to Couperin's attachment to the sacred, to text and to vocality. One can recognize in his instrumental music a mastery of rhythms, and supports, just as he would place each note on a given text. It is therefore with delight that we discover this vocal legacy to prosody as studied as natural.

Cuiller’s approach is robust and rollicking, appropriately dramatic and alert to Couperin’s occasional taste for spectacle…But it isn’t just the vigour of Cuiller’s interpretations that delights.... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019

Best known today as a composer of harpsichord music, François Couperin remained deeply involved in chamber music. His four inventive trio sonatas and suites entitled Les Nations allege to explore the different musical styles of France and Italy. In fact, each nation’s sonata is more likely Corellian and they’re all flavoured by a freeform virtuosity and elaborate French dance suite. Probably inspired by Corelli’s pages, whose Trio Sonata Books appeared in the 1680s, Couperin first composed ‘La Pucelle’, ‘La Visionnaire’ and ‘L’Astrée’. They are subsequently entitled ‘La Françoise’, ‘L’Espagnole’, ‘L’Impériale’ and ‘La Piémontoise’. Despite these solemn titles, Les Nations are made more nimble by a mysterious charm as the French and Italian styles mingle. As a crowning final of Couperin’s anniversary year, Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques deliver a long-matured version of Les Nations: pure beauty and grace.

Artist: Lucie Horsch Label: Decca