COMPANY: Chateau de Versailles
ARTIST: Clement Geoffroy
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Various Composers

Product: 3770011431991

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Flamboyant Bien-Aime. Harpsichord of Louis XV

Clément Geoffroy (harpshichord)

French harpsichordists from the time of Louis XV extolled the exhilaration and nonchalance of their harpsichord, which crackled and grumbled, but also sang of sentiment like an opera orchestra. They broke away from dance suites through pieces de caractere (character pieces), a French specificity that draws on portraits of the salons held by ladies of the upper classes. Sentimens and Tendres plaintes respond with an ornamentalist's talent to the bellicose progression of Cyclopes and Marche des Scythes! Clement Geoffroy performs a collection of this French harpsichord music that attains an exceptional level of subtlety and impetuosity, in the true "rocaille" style that marked its swansong.

Gabriel Dubuisson: Prelude aus "Premiere suite de pieces de clavecin"
+Jean-Philippe Rameau: La Dauphine; Musette en rondeau; Tambourin; Les Tendres Plaintes; Les Cyclopes
+Bernard de Bury: La *** ou Les Sentimens; Zephir; Flore; Chaconne
+Claude Balbastre: Gavottes de Mr. Rebel; Contredanse de Pygmalion
+Charles Noblet: Allemande
+Jacques Duphly: La Pothouin; La De Vaucanson; Rondeau aus "Premiere Suite"; La Du Buq; La Damanzy
+Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray: La Angrave
+Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer: L'Aimable; La marche des Scythes
+Michel Corrette: Les Etoiles