Christophe Rousset - Francois Couperin Portraits ( [CD]

This live recording immortalizes Christophe Rousset's performance at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid on January 8, 2025, a featured event in the Earning a Living concert series. Francois Couperin's keyboard compositions illuminate the role of royal patronage as the modus vivendi for musicians of the Early Modern period. Couperin's treatise, L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin, is here interwoven with a selection of his Pieces de clavecin, giving rise to a portrait gallery in music, each inspired by anonymous figures who inhabited the French court. This set of pieces de caractere, whose allusive and encoded meanings remain largely enigmatic today, is presented in groupings by tonality, each offering a window into the refined world of Baroque palace life and its intricate web of connections.

Premier Prélude (L’Art De Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Castellane (Onzième Ordre)

Les Grâces Naturéles (Onzième Ordre)

La Monflambert (Vingt-cinquième Ordre)

La Favorite (Troisième Ordre)

Deuxième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

L’Antonine (Deuxième Ordre)

La Charoloise (Deuxième Ordre)

Allemande (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

Troisième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Ménetou (Septième Ordre)

La Chazé (Septième Ordre)

La Princesse Marie (Vingtième Ordre)

La Bourbonnoise (Premier Ordre)

La Milordine (Premier Ordre)

Quatrième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Verneüil (Dix-huitième Ordre)

La Verneüillétte (Dix-huitième Ordre)

Cinquième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Régente (Quinzième Ordre)

La Villers (Cinquième Ordre)

La Princesse de Sens (Neuvième Ordre)

La Princesse de Chabeüil Ou La Muse de Monaco (Quinzième Ordre)

Sixième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Raphaéle (Huitième Ordre)

La Morinete (Huitième Ordre)

Septième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Bersan (Sixième Ordre)

Huitième Prélude (L’Art de Toucher Le Clavecin)

La Boulonoise (Douzième Ordre)

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 8435725604806
• Release Date: July 04, 2025

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