The music of Louis Couperin, uncle to François, has not often been recorded even though it exerted a strong influence on both French harpsichord music and organ music. Certainly his short keyboard dances for harpsichord have never received the contemporary pianistic treatment they get here from Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. One will either love or detest such a thing, but let it suffice to say that this is not a historically informed interpretation, although he gets a Baroque-like contrast of register through ...
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The music of Louis Couperin, uncle to François, has not often been recorded even though it exerted a strong influence on both French harpsichord music and organ music. Certainly his short keyboard dances for harpsichord have never received the contemporary pianistic treatment they get here from Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. One will either love or detest such a thing, but let it suffice to say that this is not a historically informed interpretation, although he gets a Baroque-like contrast of register through manipulation of the piano action. Kolesnikov's readings are poetic, and there's a case to be made that the elder Couperin's music is amenable to that: the unmeasured preludes that he borrowed from lute music come off well here, and in the ground bass pieces Kolesnikov is coherent even if you find that he puts the spotlight on himself. Sample the little-known Tombeau de Mr de Blancrocher, where Couperin and Kolesnikov achieve a real Dowlandian melancholy for the Baroque. In the dances,...
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