Couperin: Les Apoth?oses

Couperin: Les Apoth?oses

Couperin: Les Apoth?oses
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Composer: Francois Couperin
Performer: Hesperion XX
Performer: Jordi Savall
Performer: Ton Koopman
Performer: Monica Huggett
Performer: Hopkinson Smith
Performer: Bernard Herve
Performer: Chiara Banchini
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-09-01
Music Label: Astree
Soundtracks:
  1. Lully aux Champs Elys?s...
  2. Air pour les m?mes
  3. Vol de Mercure...
  4. Descente d'Apollon...
  5. Rumeur souteraine...
  6. Plainte des m?mes...
  7. Enl?vement de Lulli...
  8. Accueil entre doux et agard...
  9. Remerciment de Lulli...
  10. Apollon persuade Lulli...
  11. Air l?ger pour deux violons...
  12. Second air...
  13. La Paix du Parnasse...
  14. Corelli au pi?d du Parnasse...
  15. Corelli, charm?...
  16. Corelli buvant ? la Source...
  17. Enthouziasme de Corelli...
  18. Corelli... s'endort
  19. Les Muses reveillent Corelli...
  20. Remerciment de Corelli...

Description of Couperin: Les Apoth?oses

Francois Couperin penned his tributes to Corelli and Lully in 1724, in historical proximity to the then-popular debates between French and Italian music styles. Both compositions are riven with humor, bearing sentence-long subtitles that place Corelli and Lully in various mythological positions. The music in the Corelli suite presents fugues and alternating, slow-moving Italian-tinged elements. Since Lulli was, as historians note, Italian in all ways except for the name-ending "y" that replaced the "i," it's no surprise that Couperin would again merge international styles in the second apotheosis. The piece is delightful in its spry clip and humor, with the sections named on the CD by Bernard Herve in a stately manner. The music is rich in its orchestral scope, despite it being pared down to this chamber-sized performance. It's a nice exercise in contrast to play this version of these compositions back-to-back with the dual-harpsichords on Harmonia Mundi's L'Apoth?ose de Lulli, which retains the original spelling of Lulli's name while also playing the compositions in a leaner, more sizzling fashion. --Andrew Bartlett

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