D'Anglebert: Complete Harpsichord Music

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HENRI D'ANGELBERT
D'Anglebert: Complete Harpsichord Music
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)

[ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 25 April 2016

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This important release presents the complete music for harpsichord by Henri D'Anglebert.

D'Angelbert was a famous keyboard virtuoso and composer at the court of Louis the XIV, the Sun King. His style is typically French, expressed in a rich counterpoint and lavish ornamentation, a free and improvisatory style, in which sometimes the metre indications are missing ("non mesuré") and a high level of virtuosity.

Francesco Cera is one of the foremost Italian cembalists, having recorded extensively for various labels, and is considered a specialist in the French repertoire. He plays a magnificent instrument, a copy after Tibaut 1691. A valuable addition to the ever growing discography of Baroque keyboard masters on Brilliant Classics (Rameau, Couperin, Duphly, Buxtehude, Reincken, Böhm, Muffat, Gronau, Froberger and many more).

"Francesco Cera plays a copy of an instrument of 1691, one of the three extant harpsichords of Vincent Tibaut. It is a splendid instrument which is perfectly suited to this music. Cera is one of Italy's most prominent keyboard players who has made many recordings on harpsichord and organ. This is the first time I have heard him in French music. I have greatly enjoyed these performances: his playing is superb. He has a good feeling for the refinement and elegance of d'Anglebert's music. The historical importance of d'Anglebert, the quality of his oeuvre and the splendid interpretation by Francesco Cera justify the accolade of Recording of the Month." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2016)

Tracks:

Suite in g minor [25:57]
Suite in d minor [38:15]
Suite in D [20:55]
Ouverture de Cadmus [3:08]
Ritournelle des Fées de Roland [1:15]
Menuet 'Dans nos bois' [1:25]
Chaconne de Phaeton [4:03]
Courante de Lully [1:25]
Double de la courante [1:28]
Sarabande 'Dieu des Enfers' [2:11]
Gigue de Lully [1:46]
Menuet 'La Jeune Iris' [1:23]
Gavotte 'Où estes vous allé' (air ancien) [1:27]
Gavotte 'Le Beau Berger Tirsis' (air ancien) [1:37]
La Bergère Annette (vaudeville) [1:15]
Ouverture de la Mascarade [2:59]
Les Sourdines d'Armide [3:12]
Les Songes agréables d'Atys [2:51]
Air d'Apollon du Triomphe de l'Amour [3:27]
Menuet de poitou (vaudeville) [1:05]
Passacaille d'Armide [4:55]
Ouverture de Proserpine [2:51]
Chaconne de Galatée [1:50]
[Pieces in C]
Prélude [0:48]
Allemande [2:15]
Gaillarde [2:43]
Double [2:57]
Chaconne [3:58]