John Kitchen - Music from the Age of Louis XV (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Les Moissonneurs
02. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Les Langueurs-Tendres
03. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Le Gazoüillement
04. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Le Bersan
05. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Les Baricades Mistérieuses
06. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Les Bergeries
07. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: La Commére
08. Ordre No. 6 in B-Flat: Le Moucheron
09. La Du Breüil
10. La Leclair
11. La Léon
12. La Boisson
13. La Triomphante
14. Fanfarinette
15. Les Sauvages
16. L’Enharmonique
17. L’Egiptienne
18. La Forqueray
19. Médée

John Kitchen – uniquely familiar with Edinburgh’s internationally acclaimed collections of early keyboard instruments – turns his attention to the world’s most famous harpsichord, rarely recorded hitherto: the 1769 Pascal Taskin instrument now housed in the Raymond Russell Collection. It was during the reign of Louis XV that the harpsichord gained its greatest popularity in France, and this glorious 1769 instrument would have been a preferred choice for any composer of the epoch. Here its opulent lushness is captured in the ideal acoustics of Scotland’s oldest concert hall.

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