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François Couperin
Suites pour clavecin
- Le Trophee
- Le Point du Jour Allemande
- L'Anguille
- Le Croc-en-jambe
- Menuets croises
- Les Tours de Passe-passe
- La Convalescente
- Gavote
- La Sophie
- L'Epineuse
- La Pantomime
- La Princesse marie
- La Boufonne
- Les Cherubins ou L'Aimable Lazure
- La Crouilli ou La Couperinete
- La Fine Madelon
- La Douce Janneton
- Da capo La Fine Madelon
- La Sezile (Piece croisee sur le Grand Clavier)
Les Tambourins
- La Visionaire
- La Misterieuse
- La Monflambert
- La Muse Victorieuse
- Les Ombres Errantes
Mitzi Meyerson
Glossa GCD921802 Berlin 2004 75mins
Mitzi Meyerson's way with Couperin can be likened to to that of the best Chopin pianists, probing deeply beyond the written score, with expressive phrasing and rubato underpinned by a firm pulse. Her thoughtfully chosen selections from Couperin's Fourth Book take us on a journey from Ordre 22 in the "happy and warlike" D Major, via the "bitter and depressive" Ordre 26 in F# minor and the "sweetly joyous" G Major of No 20 to reach a climax in the "obscure" key of C minor (Pierre Mamou).
Mitzi Meyerson's Taskin/Hill instrument sounds lovely as recorded in a Berlin church, and her use of notes inégales is exemplary - natural and unmannered, and omitted on the composer's instructions in the heavy Mazurka au goût Polonaise
A lovely harpsichord CD. Try also Mitzi Meyerson's Georg Böhm Harpsichord Music on Glossa GCD921801.
Copyright © 2004, Peter Grahame Woolf.
