Andrew Appel - Couperin: Deuxième livre, de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 11 (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Deuxième livre, de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 11: No. 1, La castelane
02. Deuxième livre, de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 11: No. 2, L'etincelante, ou la bontems
03. Deuxième livre, de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 11: No. 3, Les graces-naturéles
04. Deuxième livre, de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 11: No. 4, La Zénobie
05. Deuxième livre, de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 11: No. 5, Les fastes de la grande et anciénne Mxnxstrxndxsx

The first piece of Couperin I played, and played over and over, was Les Barricades Mysterieuses. Its easy beauty made me popular among my high school friends and they asked me to play it repeatedly. Among the works included in the Anna Magdalena Notebook, Bach included the tender and delicious Les Bergeries. It is sublime, simple, touching, exquisite. In fact, the popularity and attraction of the sixth ordre is based in historical and contemporary assessment.
As an introduction to Couperin’s music, the sixth ordre is a welcome corridor into his unique style, a difficult aesthetic.

Couperin began his second book of harpsichord works, of suites or ordres with a break with tradition. No allemande grave to announce his music but a work of image and humor, a rollicking evocation of harvesters. From this moment on, with stops to enjoy the chirping of birds, the buzzing of flies, the peace of sheep, the babbling of gossips, and the welcome contrast of amorous sighs, we are in a bucolic place. Leaving the expected agenda of the 17th century suite, Couperin creates one that begs for a performance of every movement in its printed order because of its ideal series of contrasting images.

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