Couperin: Complete Solo Harpsichord Music

Armand-Louis Couperin was a notable French composer, organist, and harpsichordist of the late Baroque and early Classical period. He was born in Paris and was raised by his father, Nicolas, also a composer and the successor to François "Le Grand" as organist at Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais Church in 1748

Composer: Armand Louis Couperin
Artists: Yago Mahúgo (harpsichord)

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Towards the end of the renowned Couperin dynasty, Armand-Louis was born in 1727 as the nephew of François Couperin (‘le grand’), and in due course he became titulaire organist at the Église Saint-Gervais in the Marais district of Paris, as generations of Couperins in a continuous sequence stretching back to 1653. In 1752 he married Elisabeth-Antoinette Blanchet, daughter of the harpsichord-maker François-Étienne Blanchet and herself the third generation of a family of musicians and luthiers. They had four children, three of whom lived to maturity and became musicians, including their son Pierre, who succeeded Armand-Louis at Saint- Gervais after a tragic accident with a runaway horse brought about the composer’s premature end in 1789.

It has been suggested that personal modesty, as well as the demands of a schedule which saw him in demand at churches across Paris, was the cause of Armand-Louis publishing so little of his music. Certainly it was highly esteemed during his lifetime. These Pièces de Clavecin were published in 1751 as his ‘Opus 1’ and succeeded only by lesser-known collections of violin sonatas and trios. The Pièces de clavecin deserve consideration alongside the viol fantazias of Purcell and the Lachrymae of Dowland for their rich, saturated exploitation of an idiom passed its high noon.
The collection is divided into two parts by key, G major/minor and B flat major/minor. The titles allude to friends and well-known figures of the time, and much is lost or rather buried within and between the notes in this kind of portraiture, yet the pieces spring to life in the right hands. The Spanish harpsichordist Yago Mahúgo won glowing reviews for a Brilliant Classics volume (94479) of the harpsichord music by Pancrace Royer, another little-known figure from the generation before Armand-Louis Couperin: ‘performed with elegance and refinement… If you purchase [Mahúgo’s] recording you won't regret it.’

Tracklist:
Pièces de clavecin in G Major:
00:00 La victoire
06:07 Allemande
16:53 Courante. La de croissy
21:26 Les cacqueteuses
24:02 La grégoire
28:43 L'Intrépide
30:40 Menuets in G Major I & II
33:45 L'Arlequine ou la adam
36:09 La blanchet
39:54 La de boisgelou
44:18 La foucquet

Pièces de clavecin in B-Flat Major:
46:57 La semillante ou la joly
52:35 La turpin
58:14 Gavottes I & II
1:01:56 Menuets in B Major I & II
1:03:54 La du breüil
1:09:02 La chéron
1:14:08 L'Affligée
1:25:18 L'Enjouée
1:29:29 Les tendres sentiments
1:33:55 Rondeau. Gracieux

Les quatre nations:
1:36:36 L'Italienne
1:41:05 L'Angloise
1:43:09 L'Allemande
1:46:43 La Françoise
1:51:35 La chasse

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