Pierre Gallon - Couperin: Concerts Royaux - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pierre Gallon and Matthieu Boutineau offer us 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. Album Tracks 1. Couperin Concert Royal No. 1 in G Allemande. Légèrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 2. Couperin Concert Royal No. 1 in G Sarabande. Mesuré (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 3. Couperin Concert Royal No. 1 in G Menuet en Trio (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 4. Couperin Concert Royal No. 1 in G Gavotte (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 5. Couperin Concert Royal No. 1 in G Gigue. Légèrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 6. Couperin Concert Royal No. 2 in D Prélude. Gracieusement (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Theorbo) 7. Couperin Concert Royal No. 2 in D Allemande Fuguée. Gaiement (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 8. Couperin Concert Royal No. 2 in D Air Tendre (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Theorbo) 9. Couperin Concert Royal No. 2 in D Air Contrefugué. Vivement (Version for 2 Harpsichords and Theorbo) 10. Couperin Concert Royal No. 2 in D Échos. Tendrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 11. Couperin Concert Royal No. 3 in a Prélude. Lentement (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 12. Couperin Pièces de Clavecin, Book 2, Ordre No. 9 Allemande for 2 Harpsichords 13. Couperin Concert Royal No. 3 in a Allemande. Légèrement (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 14. Couperin Concert Royal No. 3 in a Courante (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 15. Couperin Concert Royal No. 3 in a Sarabande Grave (Version for 2 Harpsichords) 16. Couperin Concert Royal No. 3 in a Gavotte (Version for 2 Harpsichord