Versailles - Alexandre Tharaud (LP)

 
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Versailles - Alexandre Tharaud (LP)
Teatro alla Scala, Guido Cantelli

[ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP ]

Release Date: Monday 1 June 2020

Alexandre Tharaud pays tribute to composers associated with the courts of the French kings Louis XIV, XV and XVI. Lully, Rameau, Charpentier and François Couperin stand beside lesser-known masters: d'Anglebert, Forqueray, Royer, Duphly and Balbastre. "I've always been attracted by French music of this period," says Tharaud, adding that when he plays the album's initial Rameau prelude, "It's like being alone at Versailles, opening the doors and entering those huge, imposing rooms."

"He doesn't let the fact that some of this music is inherently unpianistic get in his way…It's a beautifully programmed disc - so much so that it begs to be heard complete. And the sense that he has lived with this music for a long time is abundantly apparent… His sense of characterisation and fine detailing is everywhere apparent… Even for aficionados of this repertoire there are surprises to be had." Gramophone

Tracks:

Rameau: Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin: Prelude
Rameau: Le rappel des oiseaux
Visée: De Visée / Transcr Tharaud: Livre de pièces pour la guitare, Suite No. 9 in D Minor: IV. Sarabande
Rameau: Suite in E minor: Le Tambourin
Royer, P: Premier livre de pièces de clavecin: VI. L'Aimable
Rameau: Gavotte et doubles
Anglebert: Sarabande grave
Anglebert: Cadmus: Overture (after Lully)
Royer, P: La Marche des Scythes
Rameau: Viens, hymen (from Les Indes Galantes)
Royer, P: Tambourins
Couperin, F: Pièces de clavecin IV: Ordre 25ème in E flat major: Les ombres errantes
Rameau: Les Sauvages
Anglebert: Variations sur Les Folies d'Espagne in Pièces de clavecin