Jacquet de La Guerre - Complete Harpsichord Works
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95555
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 16th February 2018
Contents
About
Her first book of harpsichord suites was published in 1687 and dedicated to her patron the king. The style of their brief dance movements inherits the characteristics of lute music, including the unbarred preludes which evoke a refined taste for improvisation. By the time that her second book of suites was published 20 years later, her life had been marked by the deaths of her only son, her father and her husband at the age of only 46; Jacquet de la Guerre took up composing once again as a wealthy, lonely widow.
These later suites omit the preludes, but the writing within them is more florid and complex, offering a stiff challenge both to the technique and the imagination of the performer. The D minor Suite is conceived on the grandest scale, opening with a poignantly rhetorical piece entitled ‘La Flamande’ and closing ten movements later with a grand Chaconne.
The suites are recorded anew here on a 1982 Fernando Granziera instrument after a 1736 model by Jena‐Henri Hemsch; the soloist is the Italian harpsichordist Francesca Lanfranco, who also contributes a booklet essay on the career of Jacquet de la Guerre. Lanfranco studied with Bob van Asperen, Kenneth Gilbert and Christine Jacottet and is herself a noted teacher of harpsichord.
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