François Couperin: The Eight Preludes From LArt de toucher le Clavecin
Here are the eight preludes crowning François Couperin s essential and rightfully famous book, with the appetizing title L Art de toucher le Clavecin, It is a subtle title hinting more how to touch the instrument rather than just playing it. Equally subtle and expressive are these short preludes concise in form and yet, delightfully free and agreeable with unending inspiring to young and old The book was first published in 1717 also as a handy compendium to his first two Livres of harpsichord pieces. I have been wanting to do this video for a long time to share this breathtakingly beautiful tender music with you all and wish for us all to delight in François Couperin s world of noncompromised beauty As for the instrument: This is the FF g double that I built scratch), in Oslo, back in 1971 in a lateFlemish style exceedingly ins
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