The centerpiece of this collection of chamber and solo keyboard works by François Couperin is La sultane (or sultanne), one of a group of early chamber works Couperin wrote under the influence of the Italian Arcangelo Corelli. This 12-minute quartet sonata is a fascinating Frenchification of the then-novel Italian trio sonata, with Couperin ...
Jacques Duphly was -- like English composer Charles Avison -- among the last of his stylistic line, a French harpsichordist whose lifespan reached up to one day beyond the storming of the Bastille. Duphly's choice of instrument and approach in composing for it continued -- and apparently concluded -- a tradition that stretched back to the early ...
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