Simone El Oufir Pierini Le Bret: Pieces de Clavecin

The surviving work of a mystery composer from the late French Baroque, in a new recording by a highly accomplished young early-music keyboardist.

The surviving work of a mystery composer from the late French Baroque, in a new recording by a highly accomplished young early-music keyboardist.Nothing is known of Le Bret beyond the volume of keyboard pieces reproduced here, which analysis of both musical style and ancillary details has dated to the 1730s or 1740s. Whoever he was, Le Bret was clearly inspired by François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau, and his style is comparable to that of the harpsichordists who followed in their footsteps between 1720 and 1740, such as Jean-François Dandrieu, François d'Agincourt, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Bernard de Bury and Jacques Duphly in his first two books.