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Jan Willem Jansen - Couperin, Louis: Harpsichord & Organ Works (2018) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Jan. 16, 2018

Jan Willem Jansen - Couperin, Louis: Harpsichord & Organ Works (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 670 MB
Label: Warner Classics | Tracks: 54 | Time: 127:53 min

Like the Bach family, the Couperin were a musical dynasty. Louis - the uncle of François ‘le Grand’ had established himself as organist of St Gervais by the mid-1650s and entering royal service shortly after as ‘chamber musician’ on the treble viol. He went on to become one of the most original and individual keyboard composers in France. Despite a short carrier – he died early in 1661 at the age of just thirty-five - he left more than 120 harpsichord pieces and 70 works for organ – most of them discovered in the 60’s – which highlight his refined genius of colour and counterpoint.

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John Kitchen - Music from the age of Louis XIV (2013) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Feb. 8, 2024

John Kitchen continues his much-lauded series of recordings from the instruments of the world-famous Roger Mirrey collection of keyboard instruments. Recorded in St Cecilia's Hall, Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall, this programme is specifically designed to highlight the unique qualities of the 1755 double-manual harpsichord by Luigi Baillon. Built in Cyteux, Burgundy, it has a very different sound from Parisian instruments of the time; cleaner and brighter in tone, it is the perfect vehicle for Kitchen's subtly nuanced playing, which brings the sophistication of the period to new life.

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Emmanuel Arakélian - Louis Marchand- Oeuvres pour orgue et clavecin (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Oct. 19, 2024

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FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:20:50 minutes | 2.77 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The colorful and inspired organ music of Louis Marchand!
Considered as one of the greatest composers of the Great Century in France, Louis Marchand leaves us a colorful music, very inspired, and of great audacity.

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Christophe Rousset - Armand-Louis Couperin: Pièces de Clavecin (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 26, 2020

Christophe Rousset - Armand-Louis Couperin: Pièces de Clavecin (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:40:45 | 615 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Aparté

Armand-Louis Couperin - François Couperin (‘le Grand’) was his father’s cousin - was regarded as one of the finest musicians of his time and his compositions, though little known today, provide us with precious evidence of the brilliance of the French harpsichord school and the skills of one of its most virtuosic representatives.This is the first ever recording of Armand-Louis Couperin’s sensuous and very original Pièces de clavecin, op. 1.Playing on a period instrument by Jean-Claude Goujon, now in the Musée de la Musique in Paris, Christophe Rousset brings out all the unique flavour of this music.

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Céline Frisch - L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at May 19, 2022

Céline Frisch - L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 72:14 minutes | 2,71 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

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Céline Frisch - L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 19, 2022

Céline Frisch - L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 72:14 | 436 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

‘But what are we going to do with all these pleasures?’ A question sung tête-à-tête by the Princess and the Prince in Jacques Demy’s film Peau d’âne (Donkey Skin), and a more bothersome question for harpsichordists drawn to the age of Louis XV. What to do with all the pleasures that the composers of the time distributed so extravagantly, how to live today in this ‘kingdom of the pleasant’? The usual option is to stick to the most perfectionist of these masters (Couperin), the most ambitious (Rameau) or the most adventurous (Forqueray) in programmes focusing on one of them at time. But that means setting aside a whole swathe of the repertory, which Céline Frisch here restores to the limelight, following an original method. From Couperin’s Le Réveil-matin to Corrette’s Les Étoiles , she retraces a day at the court of Louis XV, making full use of the sound palette offered by an exceptional harpsichord, a replica by Andrea Restelli of an instrument by Goujon.

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Louis Lortie - Maurice Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2003) 2CDs Music

Posted by Designol at May 27, 2022

By virtue of their diverse styles and extraordinary technical demands, Ravel's solo piano works present a daunting challenge to anyone who would record them as a complete set. From the sublime Pavane pour une infante défunte and the crystalline Sonatine, to the dazzling impressionism of Miroirs and the nightmarish intricacies of Gaspard de la nuit, Ravel's keyboard music reflects all aspects of his spontaneous imagination and his involved artistic development. Few performers have completely mastered this complex body of work and recorded it superbly, but versatile Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is in that select company.

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Louis Lane - Louis Lane Conducting Gould, Anderson, Copland, Bernstein and Piston (1959/2024) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at July 12, 2024

Louis Lane - Louis Lane Conducting Gould, Anderson, Copland, Bernstein and Piston (1959/2024) [24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:21 minutes | 1,66 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Louis Lane was the much-admired associate conductor of the legendary George Szell at the Cleveland Orchestra and took care of somewhat more remote repertoire and newer works.

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Rinaldo Alessandrini - Louis Couperin: Suites (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 12, 2019

Rinaldo Alessandrini - Louis Couperin: Suites (2019)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:19:24 | 512 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: naïve classique

Rinaldo Alessandrini is a major conductor and harpsichordist specializing in Italian Baroque music. After musical studies including serious research in Italian music from 1550 to 1750, Alessandrini embarked on his career as a harpsichordist, both as a soloist and as continuo player/leader of Concerto Italiano, a vocal and instrumental ensemble he founded. During the 1980s and 1990s Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano established themselves as the leading ensemble for Italian Baroque music from the music's home country.

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Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld eBooks & eLearning

Posted by futon2009 at Sept. 30, 2013

New York Time Bestseller. Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife and Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity, loyalty and deception, and the delicate line between truth and belief.
From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them.

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