Instrumental, 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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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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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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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’)... —
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Special offer. L Couperin & Froberger: Works for Harpsichord
Jovanka Marville (harpsichord Louis Denis 1658)
This disc claims to be a showcase for a recently restored harpsichord, and a fine job it makes of it. Jovanka Marville plays stylishly and with a languid touch that seems to bring out the instrument's... —
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Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Instrumental Choice
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