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In Reply to: What is profound? posted by Chris from Lafayette on October 4, 2018 at 16:22:39:
^ Most of the keyboards at home
C. from L.,
Louis Couperin is certainly worth listening to seriously. I would characterize his more as expressive / picturesque than profound, which I think of as being epic and addressing larger themes.
I am very fond of Couperin's unmeasured preludes and as well the 20 or 30 pieces for organ, which were among the earliest very specifically for organ including ideas for registration. L.C.'s father was an church organist. Couperin also had significant contact with Chambonnieres who wrote some very improvisation music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjQWzlENCVg
as did Henri D'Anglebert(1629-1691)who very much advanced the possibilities of the unmeasured prelude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNeXGOxyqg
To put his work in context, also listen to Johann Jakob Froberger,a student of Frescobaldi and a contemporary (1616-1667)of L. Couperin Froberger, who is credited with the invention of the sonata form, wrote even more dramatically, e.g., the Lamentation for M. de Blancroche that provides a musical picture of Blancroche falling down the stairs to hist death and The Lamentation for Ferdinand III that ends with a scale that has been suggested to represent the child's soul ascending to Heaven.
I agree that Couperin does translate well to piano if the performer is attuned to it. I have heard some of the Kelsnikov selections and admire his general approach, but there is for my taste he slips a bit towards over- dramatizing at points. A harpsichord performer that understands L. C. well is Gustav Leonhardt, who is in my view, the best interpreter of L.C. teacher Frescobaldi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORVJ8NbH_8
There is also an astounding recording of Froberger on clavichord by Thurston Dart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wILVMuon6r4&t=659s
I often find that the earlier music that works well also on Clavichord, as it was touch-dynamically expressive also seems to embody a generally more expressive capability, and I've never heard any rendition of L. C. on clavichord.
That's a very interesting period as the keyboard writing had emerged from late 16th and early 17C. expressive lute fantasie style but had not consolidated into the strict counterpoint of J.S. Bach. It would be a long while until the free-style lute-derived composition mode would re-emerge in keyboard music that was made possible by the expressiveness of the piano and the rise of the virtuoso performer.
Gosh, I forgot to go on and on about Sweelinck!
Bambi B
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- If you like L. Couperin, try Froberger, D'Anglebert, and Chambonnieres - Bambi B 10/6/1809:44:26 10/6/18 (3)
- Thanks, Bambi B - Yes, I've even played some Froberger myself! - Chris from Lafayette 12:55:30 10/6/18 (2)
- I fell in love with the exquisite sounds of the French Baroque thanks to Herve Niquet - jdaniel@jps.net 18:02:14 10/6/18 (1)
- Thanks for that rec'n, will sample! - Timbo in Oz 22:09:04 10/17/18 (0)
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