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The Complete Piano Music (CD 6)
Concert in the Park
Concerto II
Contemporary Romantics
Courante: French Baroque Lute Duets
Dances and Canzonas of Holborne and Brade
D'Anglebert Pieces de Clavecin, 1689 Paris
The harpsichord music of Jean-Henri D'Anglebert boasts an extraordinary richness of texture and a dense tapestry of ornaments. The many small ornamental figures, liberally added like embroidery to the dances that make up the majority of the harpsichord pieces, result in a sumptuous variety of detail, an elegant s...
The harpsichord music of Jean-Henri D'Anglebert boasts an extraordinary richness of texture and a dense tapestry of ornaments. The many small ornamental figures, liberally added like embroidery to the dances that make up the majority of the harpsichord pieces, result in a sumptuous variety of detail, an elegant subtlety that mirrors the elegance and richness of Louis XIV's court. Yet underneath this brocade of ornamentation, D'Anglebert's music...
The harpsichord music of Jean-Henri D'Anglebert boasts an extraordinary richness of texture and a dense tapestry of ornaments. The many small ornamental figures, liberally added like embroidery to the dances that make up the majority of the harpsichord pieces, result in a sumptuous variety of detail, an elegant subtlety that mirrors the elegance and richness of Louis XIV's court. Yet underneath this brocade of ornamentation, D'Anglebert's music is fundamentally both simple and lyrical.
The three Suites presented on this album offer a rich combination of passion and turbulence coupled with a reflective and at times majestic soundscape. The range of experience offered by D'Anglebert is impressive as the listener is urged along from periods of introspection to episodes of agitated brilliance.
Among the many wonderful works included on this album is The Tombeau de Mr. de Chambonnières, an elegiac piece written for D'Anglebert's teacher, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. It has been hailed as one of the great harpsichord pieces of the seventeenth century. Although this is an instrumental piece not associated with a text, the listener receives its message of grieving and tribute just as clearly as if it had words, perhaps more so, since music can speak at an even deeper level than words.
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Dark Blue Circumstance
Dark Harpsichord Music
This alb...
This album recaptures the atmosphere, and much of the music, of a memorable concert given in 1995. It presents, in a continuously linked sequen...
Late evening in Devon, England. Blackbird and thrush sing their last tribute to the dying day. In the medieval splendour of Dartington Great Hall the lights are dimmed, and the sombre but glittering tones of a harpsichord take over from the birds' calls and carry an audience into the gathering darkness.This album recaptures the atmosphere, and much of the music, of a memorable concert given in 1995. It presents, in a continuously linked sequence of diverse but musically related pieces, an introspective exploration of mood. Much of the music is improvisation, either actual or in style. Included are the evocative "Overture to Orpheus" written in 1981 by Louis Andriessen, and music by three members of the Couperin family: Louis, Francois, and Armand-Louis, in all covering a period of more than one hundred years.
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