François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux

François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux

François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux
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Composer: Francois Couperin
Conductor: Jordi Savall
Performer: Le Concert des Nations
Performer: Guido Morini
Performer: Xavier Díaz-Latorre
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Music Label: Alia Vox Spain
Soundtracks:
  1. Prelude (Gravement)
  2. Allemande (Legerement)
  3. Sarabande (Mesure)
  4. Gavotte (Notes Egales Et Coulees)
  5. Gigue (Legerement)
  6. Menuet En Trio
  7. Prelude (Gracieusement)
  8. Allemande Fuguee (Gayement)
  9. Air Tendre
  10. Air Contre Fugue (Vivement)
  11. Echoes (Tendrement)
  12. Prelude (Lentement)
  13. Allemande (Legerement)
  14. Courante
  15. Sarabande (Grave)
  16. Gavotte
  17. Muzette (Naivement)
  18. Chaconne Legere
  19. Prelude (Gravement)
  20. Allemande (Legerement)
  21. Courante Francoise
  22. Courante A L'Italiene
  23. Sarabande (Tres Tendrement)
  24. Riguadon (Legerement Et Marque)
  25. Forlane. Rondeau (Gayement)

Music reviews of François Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux

Music Review: In the service of the king
Rating: 5 Stars

Imagine your charge: you are court composer to the most powerful man who has ever lived. The old king is dying, slowly, his faculties are gradually receding. He has his lucid moments, remembering this or that great triumph. He has his dreamy moments, his visions of beauty and pleasure. His majesty wishes to be entertained, surrounded by those he most highly esteems. The year is 1714, the place the Palais de Versailles: the King is Louis XIV.

You are Francois Couperin. Your music must not jar the king from his reveries, it must carry him, like a leaf, down a graceful French stream on a bright spring day. The birds must twitter, the breezes blow, and the sun! The sun must bounce off the waves as dazzling and blinding jewels of light. Your music must capture the king's melancholy, for he knows his life is ending, and he wants only the bittersweet relish of his life's sweet moments.

You have dazzled him for fifteen years with your own harpsichord music. You know others have greatly pleased him with their music as well: the great Lully, the sublime Marais, that cantakerous Ste Colombe.

So you create a series of entertainments. They must be short, for it is better to have the king ask for another than to have him fall asleep in the middle of a set. And they must be perfect, for you are in the service of the king.

These are four of those entertainments. They serve up all the styles of the old king's long life, they admit only of beauty and majesty.

This is not the music of our times, and it is not likely to be appreciated or enjoyed within the context of our times. If you permit, Sr Savall and his small band of players will take you back three hundred years, and give you those moments the old king had.

They are moments worth having.

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