Couperin is too easily seen as the tender, graceful and somewhat melancholy composer, whose soft-toned palette was the same as that which served the brush of Watteau. There was another Couperin who was a master of humour and whose claws were sharp. And yet another who was a musician involved in the aesthetic battles of this time and in the avant-garde. There were great battles, like the one to which the lovers of Italy rallied, and which led him to write, at the age of twenty-two or twenty-four, the first sonatas to appear in France. There were skirmishes, like that in which the sworn masters of the guild of minstrels opposed the royal musicians. In each case we find him participating zealously and actively \u2013 but also translating his own positions into music with his characteristic skill and lighthearted humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LE PARNASSE OU L\u2019APOTH\u00c9OSE DE CORELLI<\/strong> CONCERT INSTRUMENTAL SOUS LE TITRE D\u2019APOTHEOSE<\/strong> <\/p>\n \u00a0Monica Huggett, Chiara Banchini <\/strong>violons <\/p>\n Couperin is too easily seen as the tender, graceful and somewhat melancholy composer, whose soft-toned palette was the same as that which served the brush of Watteau. There was another Couperin who was a master of humour and whose claws were sharp. And yet another who was a musician involved in the aesthetic battles of this time and in the avant-garde. There were great battles, like the one to which the lovers of Italy rallied, and which led him to write, at the age of twenty-two or twenty-four, the first sonatas to appear in France. There were skirmishes, like that in which the sworn masters of the guild of minstrels opposed the royal musicians. In each case we find him participating zealously and actively \u2013 but also translating his own positions into music with his characteristic skill and lighthearted humour.<\/p>\n The battle between the Muses \u2013 the Italian Muse and the French Muse \u2013 had fired up the whole of the seventeenth century, whose history was a vast battle-field in which the Italian troops led by Cavalli or Rossi under the banner of Mazarin advanced and were repulsed by the supporters of the \u201cballets de Cour\u201d, with tactical withdrawals from the composers of the \u201cairs de cour\u201d and counter-marches from the virtuosi<\/em>, until the final victory of the renegade Lully, who betrayed his side, seizing the French banner after having changed to a y<\/em> the Italian ending of his name. This aesthetic struggle should not be taken lightly: it was a serious matter which often affected the very destiny of French art. When Couperin was born, a forced truce succeeded in turning back for ever the transalpine invaders. Lully had his unquestioning supporters, his fanatics. But secretly Italy was re-arming hers, and the early years of the eighteenth century would see Italians and lovers of the beauties of Italy entering the fray again.<\/p>\n + information in the CD booklet<\/p>\n PHILIPPE BEAUSSANT
\nGrande Sonade, en Trio<\/p>\n\n
\nCompos\u00e9 \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire immortelle
\nde l\u2019incomparable Monsieur de Lully<\/p>\n\n
\nTon Koopman <\/strong>clavecin
\nHopkinson Smith <\/strong>th\u00e9orbe \u00b7 Bernard Herv\u00e9 <\/strong>r\u00e9citant
\nJordi Savall <\/strong>basse de viole et direction
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nEnregistrement r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par Radio France du 19 au 22 mars 1985 en l\u2019\u00e9glise luth\u00e9rienne Saint-Jean \u00e0 Paris. Prise de son : Agn\u00e8s Boissonnode – Montage : Patent Bernard
\nDirection artistique : Michel Bernard
\nMastering SACD : Manuel Mohino.<\/h6>\n
\nFran\u00e7ois Couperin
\n<\/strong>Les Apoth\u00e9oses<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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