Forqueray - Pieces de Clavecin           | Zig Zag Territoires ZZT0803012

Forqueray - Pieces de Clavecin

Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Cat No: ZZT0803012

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 14th April 2008

Contents

Works

Forqueray
5e Suite C minor

Forqueray
2e Suite G Major

Forqueray
1er Suite D minor

Forqueray
3e Suite D Major

Forqueray
4e Suite G minor

Artists

Blandine Rannou (harpsichord)

Works

Forqueray
5e Suite C minor

Forqueray
2e Suite G Major

Forqueray
1er Suite D minor

Forqueray
3e Suite D Major

Forqueray
4e Suite G minor

Artists

Blandine Rannou (harpsichord)

About

In 2001, Blandine Rannou began her recording career with the complete harpsichord pieces of Jean-Philippe Rameau, the eminent eighteenth-century French composer and harpsichordist. She has since recorded the foremost German master of the same era, Johann Sebastian Bach (the French Suites, the English Suites, the Toccatas), and excerpts from L’Art de toucher le clavecin by François Couperin, another giant of the early eighteenth-century French school.

Her trajectory continues, taking her further into the territory of the great French harpsichord composers, with the virtuosity and expressive power of Jean-Baptiste Forqueray’s transcriptions of his father Antoine’s pieces for viola da gamba. Forqueray published these pieces in this form in 1747, but also for solo harpsichord (‘Mises en Pièces de Clavecin’). There is nothing especially astonishing in this: we know just how widespread recourse to transcription was at the time.

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