Couperin: Concerts Royaux
Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel
This album is an elegant and stylish manifestation of ‘le bon goût ’ in Couperin’s music. Gallon and Boutineau also make a compelling case for further instances of repertoire reimagined for...
Couperin: Concerts Royaux
Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel
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This album is an elegant and stylish manifestation of ‘le bon goût ’ in Couperin’s music. Gallon and Boutineau also make a compelling case for further instances of repertoire reimagined for...
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Pierre Gallon and Matthieu Boutineau offer an opportunity to rediscover Couperin’s Concerts Royaux in a version for two harpsichords, a rare combination, yet one of which the composer to the Sun King was especially fond.
Here is an interpretation at once brilliant and moving of these works full of tenderness, gaiety and invention, a veritable stylistic turning point between the twilight of the Grand Siècle and the dawn of the Enlightenment.
Contents and tracklist
- Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
- Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel
Couperin, F:
Concert Royal No. 3 in A (Version for 2 Harpsichords): I. Prélude. Lentement
Work length1:47
- Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
- Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
- Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau
- Pierre Gallon, Matthieu Boutineau, Thibaut Roussel
Awards and reviews
May 2024
This album is an elegant and stylish manifestation of ‘le bon goût ’ in Couperin’s music. Gallon and Boutineau also make a compelling case for further instances of repertoire reimagined for two harpsichords
May 2024
As they skip their way through the final jaunty Forlane en rondeau, you realise they have brought nothing but joy.
