Surviving sources of French harpsichord music from before the advent of François Couperin "Le Grand" remains disappointingly few for a variety of historic reasons. One can imagine the palpable excitement in harpsichord circles with the 2004 discovery of the Borel Manuscript, once belonging to legendary French pianist Alfred Cortot, it dates to about 1660 and contains a 110 French harpsichord pieces from that era. Now housed in the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library at the University of California in Berkeley, harpsichordist ...
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Surviving sources of French harpsichord music from before the advent of François Couperin "Le Grand" remains disappointingly few for a variety of historic reasons. One can imagine the palpable excitement in harpsichord circles with the 2004 discovery of the Borel Manuscript, once belonging to legendary French pianist Alfred Cortot, it dates to about 1660 and contains a 110 French harpsichord pieces from that era. Now housed in the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library at the University of California in Berkeley, harpsichordist Davitt Moroney has accessed the volume and performs some 44 pieces either derived from or related to this source -- the equivalent of slightly more than a third of the total collection -- in Plectra Music's Le Clavecin Français: Music from the Borel Manuscript. Though some unidentified pieces have been placed through named sources in other manuscripts, the bulk of the works in the Borel are anonymous, and Moroney has kindly included many of these anonymous works in addition to pieces...
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