Couperin: Keyboard Music, Vol. 2

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Digital booklet (PDF)

Keyboard Music, Vol. 2

Recording details: July 2003
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ludger Böckenhoff
Engineered by Ludger Böckenhoff
Release date: March 2004
Total duration: 72 minutes 53 seconds

Cover artwork: Declaration of Love (detail) (1731) by Jean-François De Troy (1679-1752)
Schloss Charlottenberg, Berlin / Bridgeman Images

		Pièces de clavecin, Book 4
1		25e. Ordre, No 1: La visionaire [3'47]
2		25e. Ordre, No 2: La misterieuse [4'52]
3		25e. Ordre, No 3: La Monflambert [1'51]
4		25e. Ordre, No 4: La muse victorieuse [2'30]
5		25e. Ordre, No 5: Les ombres errantes [4'03]
6		21e. Ordre, No 1: La reine des cœurs [3'22]
7		21e. Ordre, No 2: La Bondissante [1'45]
8		21e. Ordre, No 3: La Couperin [4'09]
9		21e. Ordre, No 4: La harpée [2'47]
10		21e. Ordre, No 5: La petite pince-sans-rire [1'48]
11		24e. Ordre, No 3: Les dars-homicides [2'38]
12		24e. Ordre, No 8: L'amphibie [7'03]
13		26e. Ordre, No 1: La convalescente [4'38]
14		26e. Ordre, No 2: Gavote [1'59]
15		26e. Ordre, No 3: La Sophie [4'09]
16		26e. Ordre, No 4: L'epineuse [4'17]
17		26e. Ordre, No 5: La pantomime [3'49]
18		27e. Ordre, No 1: L'exquise [3'46]
19		27e. Ordre, No 2: Les pavots [4'19]
20		27e. Ordre, No 3: Les Chinois [2'47]
21		27e. Ordre, No 4: Saillie [2'34]

Angela Hewitt’s hugely successful first volume of François Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin presented works from Books II and III of the cycle. Here we have a further twenty-one pieces, this time from Book IV.

Critical acclaim for the first volume (Hyperion CDA67440) surely makes this new disc a self-recommending classic.

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François Couperin (1668-1733)

Keyboard Music, Vol. 2

Angela Hewitt (piano)