Alexandre Tharaud: Versailles

Muzyka klasyczna / Klasyczna Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 19.11.2021
opakowanie: digipack
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Editor's info:
Who but Alexandre Tharaud would follow an album devoted to Beethovens formidable final three piano sonatas with a recital of compact pieces by Lully, Rameau, Franois Couperin and other composers associated with the French court in the 17th and 18th centuries I've always been attracted by French music of this period, explains Tharaud, whose wide-ranging Erato catalogue embraces Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Satie, the music of Jazz Age Paris and the work of French singer-songwriter Barbara. I see this album as a bouquet of short pieces by different composers of that time. It is a tribute to the composers of Versailles. They were active during the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI and the youngest of them, Claude Balbastre, died in 1799, 10 years after the outbreak of the French Revolution. A number of the pieces have not, to the best of Tharauds knowledge, previously been recorded on the modern piano he mentions the music of Balbastre, Jacques Duphly and Pancrace Royer. As he explains, Lully did not write for solo keyboard, but his orchestral Marche pour la crmonie des Turcs from Le bourgeois gentilhomme has been transcribed for piano a number of times. For this album Tharaud has made his own arrangement of the piece, aiming to capture the full richness of it's sonorities and to emphasise it's dancing nature. Some of the pieces Tharaud considered for inclusion felt immediately comfortable on the piano keyboard; others sounded cumbersome and thus unsuitable for the album. For instance, the highly ornamented writing of Jean-Henry dAnglebert (1629-1691) can be tricky on the modern instrument, which has a heavier action and sonority than a 17th century harpsichord.
Feat. Sabine Devieilhe, soprano (track #10) & Justin Taylor, piano (track #13)

muzycy:
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Justin Taylor (piano)

utwory:
Anglebert: Cadmus: Overture (after Lully)
Anglebert: Chaconne [from Pièces in C]
Anglebert: Fugue grave
Anglebert: Sarabande grave
Anglebert: Sarabande: Dieu des Enfers
Anglebert: Variations sur Les Folies d’Espagne in Pièces de clavecin
Balbastre: La Suzanne
F.Couperin: Pièces de clavecin II: Ordre 8ème in B minor: Passacaille
F.Couperin: Pièces de clavecin IV: Ordre 25ème in E flat major: Les ombres errantes
Duphly: La de Belombre (from Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin)
Duphly: Rondeau: La Pothoüin
Lully: Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs
Rameau: Gavotte et doubles
Rameau: Le rappel des oiseaux
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: Viens, hymen
Rameau: Les Sauvages
Rameau: Suite in E minor: Le Tambourin
P.Royer: L'Aimable
P.Royer: La Marche des Scythes
P.Royer: Premier et deuxième Tambourins (from Premier livre de pièces de clavecin)
P.Royer: Tambourins
Visée: Sarabande

wydano: 2019-11-15

wydawca: Erato Disques / www.erato.com