Keyboard Music Vol.2

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FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Keyboard Music Vol.2
Angela Hewitt (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 14 April 2004

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'For someone of Angela Hewitt's pulling power to invite her fans so enticingly down so unfashionable a path - a poncy ancien régime twiddler? And on the piano! - is brave; and it's right' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Hewitt chooses to approach these works with a reverent bow both to the composer and the instrument that inspired him, never making excessive use of dynamics, and keeping the gestures in a deliberately narrow emotional scope. Her musicality is always present but never blatantly displayed, emotions kept in check with refined restraint. In this economy of means, she seems to mirror Couperin's writing itself' (Fanfare, USA)

'For someone of Angela Hewitt's pulling power to invite her fans so enticingly down so unfashionable a path - a poncy ancien régime twiddler? And on the piano! - is brave; and it's right' (BBC Music Magazine)

'In the expert hands of Angela Hewitt, François 'Le Grand' Couperin makes as easy a transition from harpsichord to piano as has Bach. The difference is that many people may - and should - now be listening to Couperin for the first time. Following the huge success of Hewitt's first volume of Couperin keyboard works [Hyperion CDA67440} - a selection from Books II and III of his Pieces de Clavecin, including the captivating 'Les Barricades Mystérieuses' - Hewitt now adds 21 more works from five 'Ordres' of Book IV, ranging from tranquil lyricism to full-blooded bragadoccio. Here is keyboard-playing of the highest order, in unfamiliar repertoire long due a sympathetic hearing.' (The Guardian)

Angela Hewitt's hugely successful first volume of François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin presented works from Books II and III of the cycle. Here we have a further twenty-one pieces, this time from Book IV.

Critical acclaim for the first volume (Hyperion CDA67440)
surely makes this new disc (which is available in both standard CD and also multi-channel surround-sound hybrid SACD formats) a self-recommending classic.

Tracks:

Book IV: Vingt-Cinquième Ordre
La Visionaire [3'47]
La Misterieuse [4'52]
La Monflambert [1'51]
La Muse Victorieuse [2'30]
Les Ombres Errantes [4'03]

Book IV: Vingt-Unième Ordre
La Reine des cœurs [3'22]
La Bondissante [1'45]
La Couperin [4'09]
La Harpée [2'47]
La Petite Pince-sans-rire [1'48]

Book IV: Vingt-Quatrième Ordre
Les Dars-homicides [2'38]
L'Amphibie [7'03]

Book IV: Vingt-Sixième Ordre
La Convalescente [4'38]
Gavote [1'59]
La Sophie [4'09]
L'Epineuse [4'17]
La Pantomime [3'49]

Book IV: Vingt-Septième Ordre
L'Exquise [3'46]
Les Pavots [4'19]
Les Chinois [2'47]
Saillie [2'34]