Moyreau - Complete Harpsichord Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96285
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 7
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 8th April 2022
Contents
Works
Concerto for solo keyboard in E minorKeyboard Sonata in E minor
Pieces de clavecin, op.1
Pieces de clavecin, op.2
Pieces de clavecin, op.3
Pieces de clavecin, op.4
Pieces de clavecin, op.5
Sinfonias (6)
Artists
Fernando De Luca (harpsichord)About
Christophe Moyreau (1700-1774) was born and died in the city of Orleans, and perhaps one reason why he never attained the fame of contemporaries such as Couperin and Rameau was that he never occupied posts in the French capital. Too much of his career is still shrouded in mystery, but he listed his occupation as ‘organist’ in the marriage register of his home church in 1726 – becoming father to 11 children over the next 18 years – and at some point he became titular organist at the important Church of Saint-Aignan before taking up the post as organist of the cathedral in 1737.
It seems to have been the lengthy restoration of the cathedral’s organ which prompted Moyreau in 1753 to gather together much of his previously composed music into six books of Pièces de clavecin. He published them in two volumes during a lengthy period of what would otherwise have been enforced inactivity; he also wrote and issued a small but influential teaching manual in the same year.
The 126 separate pieces in the six books are remarkably varied in style but consistent in quality of invention. There are dances and character-pieces, organised into long suites, but also standalone overtures, sonatas and a solo concerto. The last of the suites concludes with a grand evocation of the bells of Orleans which has become his best-known work. The second volume includes six ‘simphonies’ for harpsichord, also recorded here by Fernando De Luca, making this set by far the most comprehensive collection of Moyreau’s music ever released.
The experienced Italian harpsichordist, Fernando De Luca, most recently won much critical praise for his equally groundbreaking survey of Christoph Graupner’s harpsichord music, on a 14-CD set for Brilliant Classics (96131).
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