Mark Kroll - Couperin: The Complete Pièces de clavecin, Vol. 3 (2017)

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Artist: Mark Kroll
Title: Couperin: The Complete Pièces de clavecin, Vol. 3
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Centaur Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 77:40 min
Total Size: 486 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La ténébreuse, allemande
02. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Premiere courante
03. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Seconde courante
04. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La lugubre, sarabande
05. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Gavotte
06. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Menuett
07. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Les pélerines. La marche - La caristade - Le remerciement
08. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Les laurentines
09. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: L'Espagnolette
10. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Les regrets
11. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: Les matelotes provençales
12. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La favorite, chaconne à deux tems
13. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1, 3rd Ordre in C Major-Minor: La lutine
14. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2, 11th Ordre in C Minor-Major: La Castellane
15. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2, 11th Ordre in C Minor-Major: L'Étincelante ou La Bontems
16. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2, 11th Ordre in C Minor-Major: Les grâces-naturelles (Suite de la Bontems)
17. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2, 11th Ordre in C Minor-Major: La zénobie
18. Pièces de clavecin, Book 2, 11th Ordre in C Minor-Major: Les Fastes de la grande, et anciénne Mxnxstrxndxsx, Acts I-V
19. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3, 13th Ordre in B Minor: Les lis naissans
20. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3, 13th Ordre in B Minor: Les roseaux
21. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3, 13th Ordre in B Minor: L'engageante
22. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3, 13th Ordre in B Minor: Les Folies françoises, ou les Dominos
23. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3, 13th Ordre in B Minor: L'âme-en-peine

Continuing his series of the complete harpsichord works of François Couperin on Centaur, Mark Kroll performs three ordres or suites from the four books of Pièces de Clavecin, leading the listener deeper into the byways of Couperin's keyboard output. While some of the best-known character pieces were included in the two previous volumes, such as Les Barricades Mistérieuses, Le Tic-Toc-Choc, and L'Arlequine, this third volume presents the Third, Eleventh, and Thirteenth ordres, which don't include any obvious greatest hits, though there are entertaining highlights for fans of the composer. Sample Les Fastes de la grande, et Anciénne Mxnxstrxndxsx (or the Ménéstrandise, a guild for dancers and musicians that existed from the 14th to the 18th centuries), a farce in three acts depicting fiddlers, jugglers, acrobats, drunkards, and monkeys. Also try Les Folies françoises, ou Les Dominos, which depicts a slightly surreal assembly of masked dancers at a ball. Kroll's performances are playful, energetic, and lively, and his use of two instruments -- a Pascal Taskin harpsichord of 1769 and a replica by William Dowd from 1974 -- provides a great variety of timbres. Centaur's recorded sound is clean and close to the harpsichord, so every ornate detail can be heard.

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