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Nostalgia for the Ancien Régime has been growing in recent years among the very rich pool of French and foreign musicians. While music was one of the most important instruments of the power of the absolute monarchy in France, it was also highly appreciated at all levels of the state and aristocracy, starting with the sovereigns themselves. The young Louis XIV was an excellent dancer and also excelled at playing the harpsichord.
From this starting point, Fabien Armengaud has built this interesting album. It follows in the footsteps of Étienne Richard, composer, instrumentalist and, subject of this publication. He was also a teacher of the nineteen-year-old king, who, it seems, greatly admired his master. The three Suites by Étienne Richard are flanked here by contemporary pieces from the same manuscript deposited at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
This album was played on an Alain Anselm harpsichord, built in 2014 in the spirit of late seventeenth-century French craftsmanship (at 392 Hz and tuned in a meantone temperament). The manuscript also contains a smattering of pieces by Chabanceau de La Barre, Marin Marais, Jacques Hardel, Louis Couperin, Luigi Rossi and some others. Fabien Armengaud sums it up: "To conclude", he writes in the notes of the libretto, "I will not say that Richard is a small or obscure master. The originality of his preludes, the touching poetry of his allemandes, the classically elegant stature of his courantes, the melancholy of his sarabandes, his enigmatic gigue in 4/4, all suggest to me that he was a leading master who is entirely worthy of his place on the Parnassus of the French harpsichord". © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Germain Pinel, Composer - Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Joseph Chabanceau de la Barre, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Marin Marais, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Louis Couperin, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Louis Couperin, Composer - Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Luigi Rossi, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist - Jacques Thomelin, Composer
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Louis Couperin, Composer - Etienne Richard, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
HENRY DU MONT, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Jacques Hardel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist - Monnard, Composer
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist - Monnard, Composer
2020 2020 L'Encelade
René MEZANGEAU, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Germain Pinel, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Louis Couperin, Composer - Fabien Armengaud, Soloist, MainArtist
2020 2020 L'Encelade
Albumbeschreibung
Nostalgia for the Ancien Régime has been growing in recent years among the very rich pool of French and foreign musicians. While music was one of the most important instruments of the power of the absolute monarchy in France, it was also highly appreciated at all levels of the state and aristocracy, starting with the sovereigns themselves. The young Louis XIV was an excellent dancer and also excelled at playing the harpsichord.
From this starting point, Fabien Armengaud has built this interesting album. It follows in the footsteps of Étienne Richard, composer, instrumentalist and, subject of this publication. He was also a teacher of the nineteen-year-old king, who, it seems, greatly admired his master. The three Suites by Étienne Richard are flanked here by contemporary pieces from the same manuscript deposited at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
This album was played on an Alain Anselm harpsichord, built in 2014 in the spirit of late seventeenth-century French craftsmanship (at 392 Hz and tuned in a meantone temperament). The manuscript also contains a smattering of pieces by Chabanceau de La Barre, Marin Marais, Jacques Hardel, Louis Couperin, Luigi Rossi and some others. Fabien Armengaud sums it up: "To conclude", he writes in the notes of the libretto, "I will not say that Richard is a small or obscure master. The originality of his preludes, the touching poetry of his allemandes, the classically elegant stature of his courantes, the melancholy of his sarabandes, his enigmatic gigue in 4/4, all suggest to me that he was a leading master who is entirely worthy of his place on the Parnassus of the French harpsichord". © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 35 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:07
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Fabien Armengaud
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: L'encelade
- Genre: Klassiek
2020 2020 L'Encelade
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