Composer: Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Louis Couperin, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Gaspard le Roux
Performer: Sophie Yates
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN0830
Release: 2025
Size: 1.53 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Anglebert: Pièces de clavecin, Suite No. 3 in D Minor
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Allemande
03. III. Courante & Double
04. IV. Seconde Courante
05. V. Sarabande grave
06. VI. Sarabande
07. VII. Gigue
08. Lebègue: Allemande de Mr Le Bègue, M15
Chambonnières: Suite in G Major
09. II. Courante
10. Chambonnières: Sarabande de Mr de Chambonnieres – Seconde Sarabande du même Auteur
11. Chambonnières: Gigue du même Auteur
12. Chambonnières: Chaconne de Mr de Chambonnieres – Seconde Chaconne
13. Normand: Dance angloise
14. Couperin: Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher, G. 81
Lebègue: Troisième livre d’orgue
15. Les cloches
Lully: Amadis, LWV 63
16. Chaconne (Arr. for Harpsichord by Anonymous)
17. Couperin: Prélude in A Minor, G. 6 “à l’imitation de Mr. Froberger”
18. Couperin: Pavanne in F-Sharp Minor, G. 120
Roux: Pièces de clavecin, Suite No. 5 in F Major
19. I. Prélude
20. II. Allemande grave
21. III. Courante
22. IV. Chacone
One of the leading keyboard players of her generation, Sophie Yates is renowned as a performer, educator, and broadcaster. She writes of this programme: ‘The Versailles of the seventeenth century was very different from the huge, opulent palace we know today… it was only in the last quarter of the century – after twenty years of work by architects, designers, and the landscape gardener Le Nôtre – that Louis XIV moved there permanently… Music was extremely important at the court of Louis XIV (1638 – 1715) and, as such, provided work and patronage for a huge number of composers, dancers, teachers, instrument makers, and theatrical animateurs, supporting a whole artistic culture. The works in the present anthology are all drawn from this era of creative abundance… The cast of extraordinary characters who appear on this recording were all nurtured in the prestigious and wealthy court of Louis XIV. Nevertheless, their music is refined and intimate, prizing expressiveness over display and delighting in the colour and resonance of the harpsichord.’
