FRANÇOIS D'AGINCOUR Pièces de clavecin
Hervé Niquet
GCD 921702
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Performing artists
Hervé Niquet, harpsichord Caroline Delume, baroque guitar
Production details
Playing time: 79'22 Recorded in the Église de Franc-Waret, France Date: August 2001 Engineered by Manuel Mohino Produced by Peter Gistelinck and Manuel MohinoDesign: Carlos Céster Booklet essay by Jean-Yves Patte English, German, French, Spanish
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FRANÇOIS D'AGINCOUR
Pièces de clavecin
1-13 Premier Ordre (en ré mineur) Allemande: La Couronne Allemande: La Sincopée Courante Sarabande: La Magnifique Le Pattelin: Rondeau Gigue: La Bléville La Sensible: Rondeau Les Dances Provençales La Caressante La Sautillante Menuet Double du Menuet PrécédantAutre (Menuet)
14-20 Second Ordre (en fa majeur)La PigouLe Colin Mailliard: RondeauLa Pressante AngéliqueLe Précieux: RondeauLes deux CousinesMenuetChaconne: La Sonning
21-31 Troisième Ordre (en ré majeur)L'IngénieuseLa Villerey ou les deux SoeursL'Agréable: RondeauLa FauvetteLa MisterieuseLa Val Joyeux: VaudevilleLe Moulin à VentLa Minerve: RondeauL'Etourdie: RondeauLe presque rien: RondeauLa Courtisane: Gavotte
21-34 Quatrième Ordre (en mi mineur): ExtraitsAllemande: La CouperinMenuetLa Janneton: Rondeau
Hervé Niquet is far less interested in being known as a Baroque music specialist than for his passionate interest in all of French music, especially its vocal and lyrical compositions and nowadays he is as liable to be found directing a symphony orchestra as his own period instrument ensemble Le Concert Spirituel. It may come, for some, as a surprise to find Niquet teaming up with the Brussels Philharmonic to record Debussy but this future release will mark the inauguration of a new adventure for Niquet and Glossa focusing on the music associated with the Prix de Rome competition which drew in scores of leading French composers all the way from 1803 through 1968. [read more...]
Taking a leading role in the revival of tragédies lyriques (or tragédies en musique), the best of the French Baroque opera tradition, is a long, daunting (and expensive) challenge but one which Hervé Niquet has been keen to accept. Present as a singer in the chorus of Les Arts Florissants in 1987 when William Christie put on Lully’s Atys, Niquet formed his own ensemble, Le Concert Spirituel that same year. Since that time he has balanced his own endeavours to stage (and record) key French tragédies with his other musical interests, which extend from Monteverdi to Purcell and Handel (soon to be reissued – now on SACD – is Niquet’s recording of the Fireworks and Water Music suites) right the way through to later composers such as Schumann, Gounod and d’Indy.[read more...]