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F Couperin - L’Unique: Harpsichord Music | Cedille Records CDR90000194

F Couperin - L’Unique: Harpsichord Music

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Label: Cedille Records

Cat No: CDR90000194

Barcode: 0735131919425

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 8th May 2020

Contents

Works

Couperin, Francois

Pieces de clavecin II
» Ordre 6 in B flat major
» Ordre 7 in G major
» Ordre 8 in B minor

Artists

Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)

Works

Couperin, Francois

Pieces de clavecin II
» Ordre 6 in B flat major
» Ordre 7 in G major
» Ordre 8 in B minor

Artists

Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)

About

Two-time Grammy Award-nominated harpsichordist Jory Vinikour plays historically groundbreaking works by François Couperin (1668–1733) on an album comprising three inventive Couperin suites – the composer called them “Ordres” – combining traditional French Baroque dance movements with witty and atmospheric character pieces – miniature tone poems for solo harpsichord.

Couperin’s suites “are elegantly composed, concealing a complex, allusive and varied emotional world behind their highly wrought surface” (Norton Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music).

Chicago-born, French-trained harpsichordist Vinikour is especially enamored of Couperin’s Ordres nos. 6, 7, and 8, calling them “remarkable” for their harmonically driven melodic invention and atmospheric unity within each suite.

Highlights include the celebrated Les Baricades mistérieuses from Ordre no.6, which The Guardian calls “shimmering, kaleidoscopic and seductive, a sonic trompe l’oeil.” The compelling Les Amusemens from Ordre no.7 is irresistibly sweet and melancholic. Ordre no.8 offers masterful examples of established forms, culminating with a dramatic Passacaille.

Vinikour performs on a harpsichord created for him in 2012 by England’s Tony Chinnery, modeled after an instrument by the French builder Pascal Taskin (1723–1793). Its rich sound is ideally suited to 18th-century French repertoire.

Vinikour’s 2019 Cedille album, 20th Century Harpsichord Concertos, drew international acclaim. Fanfare hailed it as “a terrific new release.” Classical Music Daily (UK) found Vinikour’s playing “truly spellbinding,” while Gramophone applauded his “outstanding, superbly engineered performances.” Classics Today asserted, “This is surely one of the discs of the year,” while praising Vinikour’s talent for “selecting instruments that invariably suit the music, and sound terrific in their own right.”

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