Download, Couperin, L (composer)
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We very quickly learn just how characterful Desandre can be with her amused, laughing reactions to women in battle in ‘Non posso far’, and the dark glitter of her voice in the melancholic ‘Lasciatemi... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Female Singer of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Both connoisseurs and newcomers will find a great deal to savour in this exquisitely conceived album. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Christophe Rousset plays Louis Couperin
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord Louis Denis 1658 restored by Reinhard von Nagel 2004-5)
Rousset combines meticulous fingerwork and attention to the music's intricacies with rhetorical gestures, balletic energy and a dramatic flair informed by his long experience directing French... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Instrumental Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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He’s commandeered a Yamaha concert grand and had it regulated in two ways: one nurturing darker and even more rounded sounds to enhance what he perceives to be the music’s singing qualities;... —
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Monsieur Couperin. Louis, Charles, Francois I ? Pieces de Clavecin
Brice Sailly (harpsichord)
What strikes me most about this recording is the judicious use of registrations and stops by harpsichordist Brice Sailly. This not only gives the necessary timbral variety to the various movements,... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Clavecin
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Andreas Staier: Pour passer la mélancolie
RecommendedAndreas Staier (anon. French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4)
a satisfying issue on a fine-sounding and sympathetically recorded mid-18th-century harpsichord. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Charles Dieupart: Les Suites
Corina Marti (recorder), Yizhar Karshon (harpsichord), Tore Eketorp (treble viol), Soma Salat-Zakarias (viola da gamba) & Ziv Braha (theorbo)
The most fascinating element of their performance is the enchanting sound of the French quinton (a five-string fretted instrument with sloping shoulders...The quinton blends particularly well... —
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The performance by La poème harmonique is excellent. The instrumental ensemble is tightly controlled by conductor Vincent Dumestre, and the individual styles of each of the pieces emerges with... —
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Staier avoids the potential didactic pitfall that the concept might have laid for him. But the surprise comes in the form of music by Staier himself, a suite of six pieces (or ‘meditations’)... —
