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Special offer. Louis Couperin: Suites

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

Louis Couperin: Suites

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Alessandrini has gathered some of them, and a few by other composers, into three suites, performing them on a rich-sounding harpsichord with the requisite Gallic liquid elegance.

Special offer. Louis Couperin: Suites

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

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Awards:

Alessandrini has gathered some of them, and a few by other composers, into three suites, performing them on a rich-sounding harpsichord with the requisite Gallic liquid elegance.

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At the harpsichord, Rinaldo Alessandrini creates several ‘suites de danse’ from the magnificent output of Louis Couperin.

“Louis Couperin’s inspiration is distinguished by its innovative and exploratory content: far from solutions of convenience, his passion is transformed into new and surprising harmonic and rhythmic solutions. His counterpoint becomes the vector of a complexity generally unknown in the keyboard music of his time. The combination of such a tumultuous talent with the grace and nobility of the musical language of seventeenth Century France generates a result that opens out onto unpredictable semantic and expressive horizons.” - Rinaldo Alessandrini

Contents and tracklist

I. Prélude à l'imitation de Froberger
Track length8:05
II. Allemande "L'amiable"
Track length3:24
III. Courante "La mignone"
Track length1:34
IV. Courante II
Track length1:21
V. Sarabande
Track length2:29
VI. Menuet de Poitou
Track length0:57
VII. Double
Track length1:04
VIII. Gavotte de Monsieur Handel
Track length0:54
IX. Double de la gavotte oy dessus
Track length1:02
X. Pavane angloise
Track length5:07
XI. Passacaille del Seig
Track length1:44
XII. Gigue de Monsieur Froberger
Track length2:18
I. Prélude
Track length3:55
II. Allemande graue
Track length3:45
III. Courante I
Track length1:27
IV. Courante II
Track length1:31
V. Sarabande
Track length2:53
VI. Gigue
Track length1:53
VII. Chaconne
Track length3:15
VIII. Tombeau de Monsieur de Blancrocher
Track length5:24
I. Prélude
Track length7:50
II. Allemande
Track length3:35
III. Courante I
Track length1:46
IV. Courante II
Track length1:46
V. Sarabande
Track length3:01
VI. Gigue
Track length2:01
VII. Simphonie
Track length1:38
VIII. Gavotte
Track length1:04
IX. La pastourelle
Track length1:15
X. Canaries
Track length1:13

Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2019
    Nominee - Baroque Instrumental

15th September 2019

Alessandrini has gathered some of them, and a few by other composers, into three suites, performing them on a rich-sounding harpsichord with the requisite Gallic liquid elegance.

22nd September 2019

The dark colours and resonant harpsichord sound are alluring, echoing Saint-Évremond’s contemporary treatise: “Passion must be fully displayed, but never exaggerated.”
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