Louis Couperin

[Karl Henning]

Loving this Passacaille in C from John Moraitis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I9av22_TX0&t=909s

Always tasty!

[prémont]

You're not alone in this - Peter Watchorn has called it the most beautiful recording of Louis Couperin ever made!

Another recording from the 70s which I think still holds up, is Alan Curtis (Archiv).

I agree about Curtis and Leonhardt, but I think Skip Sempe's Louis Couperin recording on alpha also should be mentioned in this context.

[Mandryka]

 Well, from the 70s, I rate highly the first volume of Blandine Verlet's, and Colin Tilney's.

[prémont]

Well, from the 70s, I ratte highly the first volume of Blandine Verlet's, and Colin Tilney's.

Concerning Tilney:
He passed two months ago.
Dec. 17. 2024  aged 91.
RIP

https://theviolinchannel.com/english-harpsichordist-colin-tilney-has-died-aged-91/

[Mandryka]

Concerning Tilney:
He passed two months ago.
Dec. 17. 2024  aged 91.
RIP

https://theviolinchannel.com/english-harpsichordist-colin-tilney-has-died-aged-91/

Thanks for letting us know. He's left a fabulous legacy in harpsichord recordings, he had some good instruments too.

[bioluminescentsquid]

I like the recording by Christopher Hogwood. I remember it being described as Apollonian (maybe here?) and I completely agree.
Strangely, I think Apollonian also fits Leonhardt's first recording but I have struggled to fall in love with it. I like his later recording much more, on a far more characterful harpsichord too.

[bioluminescentsquid]

In other Louis Couperin news, a good, introspective Pavane here as well.


https://open.spotify.com/album/5oGO7YOLLaXnpQHRtPp8O0?si=lMnLrWmxQhuWO7Do32m99Q

[Mandryka]

In other Louis Couperin news, a good, introspective Pavane here as well.


https://open.spotify.com/album/5oGO7YOLLaXnpQHRtPp8O0?si=lMnLrWmxQhuWO7Do32m99Q

I don't think I've ever come across Yoshio Watanabe before - he's clearly a significant musician by reputation and discography, I see he taught  Marie Nishyama. Listening now to the Froberger on that CD you cited. 

A strange phenomenon of our times - he has no wikipedia page, and I find that rather unexpected.

@Dry Brett Kavanaugh If you see his Schubert recordings with  John Elwes it could be interesting. There's a Müllerin and a Schwanengesang.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I don't think I've ever come across Yoshio Watanabe before - he's clearly a significant musician by reputation and discography, I see he taught  Marie Nishyama. Listening now to the Froberger on that CD you cited. 

A strange phenomenon of our times - he has no wikipedia page, and I find that rather unexpected.

@Dry Brett Kavanaugh If you see his Schubert recordings with  John Elwes it could be interesting. There's a Müllerin and a Schwanengesang.

He studied with Leonhardt. I will look for the recording. His personal page is only partly built.


https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E9%82%8A%E9%A0%86%E7%94%9F

http://www.cembalo.com/frame_discography.htm

http://www.cembalo.com/

[Mandryka]

Is this just a mistake from James Johnstone's youtube channel? It must be Armand-Louis, surely.

[milk]

Skip Sempe is the GOAT!

[Mandryka]

Jean Rondeau is progressing his complete Louis Couperin project, there are four sold out concerts in Paris in November, a concert in London and no doubt elsewhere.

The tickets are expensive. Even I am reluctant to go, and I'm a terrible spendthrift. Last time I saw Rondeau I was very disappointed -- a short concert, a swizz. Hmmm.

Is he really a good musician. The style's very late "baroque" -- virtuosity, furiousness . . .  That might work OK for Francois le Grand  but for his uncle Louis le Meilleur  . . . . ?

[Skogwald]

Louis Couperin is so good. I come back to him (Leonhardt, Egarr, Sempe) very often!