François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux
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Couperin composed these delectable works in 1714 and 1715 for the Louis XIV's Sunday chamber music concerts. When they were published in 1722, he specified the instruments employed in those concerts without indicating how they're used in each of the 25 movements in these four suites. Jordi Savall has taken his cue from Couperin's open-ended particulars to allot lead voices and parts to fit each movement's character, with marvelous results. The music ranges stylistically from lugubrious Preludes to court dances and folk-inspired tunes. Savall and his outstanding players make this graceful music irresistible, finding in it not only courtly elegance but also unexpected expressiveness, as in the melancholy opening Preludes and elsewhere. Everyone will have their own favorite tracks (movements) to return to as "encores" after the disc ends, but be warned: it's hard not to continue on to the next track, and then the next, till you've played the disc through again. This is one of those "don't-miss-this-one" discs. Enjoy! --Dan Davis
François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux, Music, Bruno Cocset, Jordi Savall, Josep Borras, Francois Couperin, Le Concert des Nations, Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Guido Morini, Alfredo Bernardini, Manfredo Kraemer, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers
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- Pure enjoyment
- Good but not Great.
- Sublime Music
- In the service of the king
- Sublime Savall...
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François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux
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ASIN: B0007Y8A9W
Release Date: 2005-04-12 |
Tracks:
- Prelude (Gravement)
- Allemande (Legerement)
- Sarabande (Mesure)
- Gavotte (Notes Egales Et Coulees)
- Gigue (Legerement)
- Menuet En Trio
- Prelude (Gracieusement)
- Allemande Fuguee (Gayement)
- Air Tendre
- Air Contre Fugue (Vivement)
- Echoes (Tendrement)
- Prelude (Lentement)
- Allemande (Legerement)
- Courante
- Sarabande (Grave)
- Gavotte
- Muzette (Naivement)
- Chaconne Legere
- Prelude (Gravement)
- Allemande (Legerement)
- Courante Francoise
- Courante A L'Italiene
- Sarabande (Tres Tendrement)
- Riguadon (Legerement Et Marque)
- Forlane. Rondeau (Gayement)
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Couperin composed these delectable works in 1714 and 1715 for the Louis XIV's Sunday chamber music concerts. When they were published in 1722, he specified the instruments employed in those concerts without indicating how they're used in each of the 25 movements in these four suites. Jordi Savall has taken his cue from Couperin's open-ended particulars to allot lead voices and parts to fit each movement's character, with marvelous results. The music ranges stylistically from lugubrious Preludes to court dances and folk-inspired tunes. Savall and his outstanding players make this graceful music irresistible, finding in it not only courtly elegance but also unexpected expressiveness, as in the melancholy opening Preludes and elsewhere. Everyone will have their own favorite tracks (movements) to return to as "encores" after the disc ends, but be warned: it's hard not to continue on to the next track, and then the next, till you've played the disc through again. This is one of those "don't-miss-this-one" discs. Enjoy! --Dan Davis
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Pure enjoyment.......2005-09-22
Listening to this excellent CD is just pure enjoyment.
This is french baroque at its best ( one would not expect less from Savall and his fantastic ensemble !).
You also get a great variety of top performances : oboe, flute,violin and viola da gamba as soloists.
If you like baroque music, just get this one .
Good but not Great........2005-08-08
While Savall has gathered some of the top players today to join him, the result is largely individualistic. Attention to fine details is lacking, as often ornaments are not played together in the same fashion, nor are phrases entirely similar. The orchestrations are clever and Savall and his collegues give us quite a number of rather touching movements. The overall result is good, and certainly better than some of the terribly square recordings existing on the market already (Robert Claire's bland offering comes to mind). I do find it a shame that given the potential for something quite spectacular with Savall, the end result is just 'good'.
Sublime Music.......2005-08-01
This is an absolutely lovely CD for anyone who appreciates Baroque period music. The music is beautifully performed.
In the service of the king.......2005-07-27
Imagine your charge: you are court composer to the most powerful man who has ever lived. The old king is dying, slowly, his faculties are gradually receding. He has his lucid moments, remembering this or that great triumph. He has his dreamy moments, his visions of beauty and pleasure. His majesty wishes to be entertained, surrounded by those he most highly esteems. The year is 1714, the place the Palais de Versailles: the King is Louis XIV.
You are Francois Couperin. Your music must not jar the king from his reveries, it must carry him, like a leaf, down a graceful French stream on a bright spring day. The birds must twitter, the breezes blow, and the sun! The sun must bounce off the waves as dazzling and blinding jewels of light. Your music must capture the king's melancholy, for he knows his life is ending, and he wants only the bittersweet relish of his life's sweet moments.
You have dazzled him for fifteen years with your own harpsichord music. You know others have greatly pleased him with their music as well: the great Lully, the sublime Marais, that cantakerous Ste Colombe.
So you create a series of entertainments. They must be short, for it is better to have the king ask for another than to have him fall asleep in the middle of a set. And they must be perfect, for you are in the service of the king.
These are four of those entertainments. They serve up all the styles of the old king's long life, they admit only of beauty and majesty.
This is not the music of our times, and it is not likely to be appreciated or enjoyed within the context of our times. If you permit, Sr Savall and his small band of players will take you back three hundred years, and give you those moments the old king had.
They are moments worth having.
Sublime Savall..........2005-04-13
once again Maestro Savall proves himself and his cosmopolitan band of collaborators to be without peer. Perfect for studying, dinner parties, or even fooling around ;) this disc is a must have.
Jordi Savall deserves our sincere thanks for restoring to the world the hithertoo forgotten gems of early music. From the music Charles V would've listened to to this luscious and sublime offering of Couperin's concerts for the Sun King, I am grateful this Catalan genius is continueing to share the fruits of his warmhearted detective work with the world at large.
Pick it up today, don't delay and check out ALL of Alia Vox's efforts too. In a world marred by violence allow Jordi Savall and his team to take you back to a time that seems more civilized, more tolerant and can still help us remember that music knows neither creed nor boundary and can make us all rejoice.
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F Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux, 1722 /Le Concert des Nations * Savall
Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain
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ASIN: B0006FNF38
Release Date: 2005-06-14 |
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Release Date: 2005-02-08 |
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Couperin: Concerts royaux
Manufacturer: Atma Classique
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ASIN: B000034D44
Release Date: 1999-11-16 |
Tracks:
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: L'art de Toucher Le Clavecin: Prld No.3
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: Gravement
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: Allemande
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: Sarabande
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: Fuguete
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: Gavote
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 7th Conc in g: Siciliene
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Majestueusement
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Allemande
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Allemande 2
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Courante 1
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Courante 2
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Sarabande
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Gigue
- Gouts-reunis Ou Nouveaux Concs: 11th Conc in c: Rondeau
- L'art De Toucher Le Clavecin: Cinquieme Prld in A
- Troisieme Livre De Pieces De Clavecin: Extraits Du 15th Ordre: Le Dodo Ou L'amour Au Berceau in A/a
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Couperin: Oboe Concertos
Manufacturer: Camerata
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00000DG1J
Release Date: 1998-10-27 |
Tracks:
- Concert No.1 From The Concerts Royaux: Prelude
- Concert No.1 From The Concerts Royaux: Allemande
- Concert No.1 From The Concerts Royaux: Sarabande
- Concert No.1 From The Concerts Royaux: Gavotte
- Concert No.1 From The Concerts Royaux: Gigue
- Concert No.1 From The Concerts Royaux: Menuet en Trio
- Concert No.6 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Prelude
- Concert No.6 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Allemande
- Concert No.6 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Sarabande Mesuree
- Concert No.6 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Air de Diable
- Concert No.6 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Sicilienne
- Concert No.7 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Prelude
- Concert No.7 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Allemande
- Concert No.7 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Sarabande
- Concert No.7 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Fuguette
- Concert No.7 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: GAvotte
- Concert No.7 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Sicilienne
- Concert No.10 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Prelude
- Concert No.10 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Air Tendre et Loure
- Concert No.10 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Plainte
- Concert No.10 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: La Tromba
- Concert No.12 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Prelude
- Concert No.12 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Badinage
- Concert No.12 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Lentement, et pathetiquement
- Concert No.12 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Air
- Concert No.13 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Prelude
- Concert No.13 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Air
- Concert No.13 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Sarabande
- Concert No.13 From The Les Gouts Reunis, Ou Nouveaux Concerts: Chaconne Legere
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François Couperin: Pièces de viole; Concerts Nos. 3 & 11
Couperin , Van Der Velden , and Wilson
Manufacturer: Channel Classics Nl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Chamber Music
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ASIN: B00007FKQU
Release Date: 2002-12-10 |
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Couperin: Concerts Royaux
Manufacturer: Tactus Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000069I2
Release Date: 1998-04-21 |
Tracks:
- Trosieme Conc: Prld (Lentement)
- Trosieme Conc: Allemande (Legerement)
- Trosieme Conc: Courante
- Trosieme Conc: Sarabande (Gravement)
- Trosieme Conc: Gavotte
- Trosieme Conc: Muzette (Naivement)
- Trosieme Conc: Chaconne (Legerement)
- Quatorzieme Conc: Prld (Gravement)
- Quatorzieme Conc: Allemande (Vivement)
- Quatorzieme Conc: Sarabande (Grave)
- Quatorzieme Conc: Fuguete
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': Le Charme (Gracieusement Et Gravement)
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': L'Enjouement (Gayement)
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': Les Graces/Courante Francoise
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': Le Je Ne Say Quoy (Gayement)
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': La Vivacite
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': La Noble Fierte, Sarabande (Gravement)
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore': La Douceur
- Neuvieme Conc Intitule 'Il Ritratto Dell'Amore':L'et Coetera ou Menuets
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Couperin: Pièces de Viole, Concerti Nos. 3 & 11
Manufacturer: Channel Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00006I8AT
Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
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Les Grands Compositeurs Baroques
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
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