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Sophie Yates - Armand-Louis Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin (2005)  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 12, 2022
Sophie Yates - Armand-Louis Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin (2005)

Sophie Yates - Armand-Louis Couperin: Pièces de Clavecin (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 490 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 189 Mb | Artwork included
Classical | Label: Chandos (Chaconne Series) | # CHAN 0718 | Time: 01:19:49

The New Grove Dictionary has entries on 10 musically active members of the Couperin dynasty, of whom Armand-Louis is, chronologically speaking, the eighth. Born in 1725, he was the son of one of the great François Couperin’s cousins, and held a number of organ posts in Paris, including the virtually family-owned one of St Gervais, on the way to Vespers at which he was killed in a road accident just a few months before the Revolution. According to accounts he was a likeable man whose life was led free from strife and uncorrupted by ambition, and it is not fanciful to say that such are the qualities which inform his harpsichord music. Mostly rather rangy character pieces, though with a sprinkling of dances, they show the bold textural richness of the later French harpsichordist-composers, if without the galloping imagination of figures such as Rameau, Balbastre or Royer. Instead, they prefer to inhabit a contented rococo world, into which they bring considerable professional polish. If that makes the pieces sound predominantly ‘pleasant’, well, so they are… as agreeable a body of solo harpsichord music as any. But they are not vapid and neither are they easy, and we can be grateful that this selection has fallen to a player as technically assured and as musically sympathetic as Sophie Yates.

VA - RTBF Sixties Collection [1961-1970] (1989)  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at March 2, 2021
VA - RTBF Sixties Collection [1961-1970] (1989)

VA - RTBF Sixties Collection [1961-1970] (1989)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 09:08:18 | 1,24 Gb
Genre: Oldies 60's / Oldies Pop | Label: RTBF

The Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF, Belgian Radio-television of the French Community) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels. Its counterpart in the Flemish Community is the Dutch-language VRT (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie), and in the German-speaking Community it is BRF (Belgischer Rundfunk).