Jacques Champion de Chambonnières Harpsichord works
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Composer or Director: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
Label: Lyrinx
Magazine Review Date: 9/1987
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: LYRCD066
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Pavanes, Movement: D minor, BT87 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Pavanes, Movement: G minor, BT128 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Allemandes, Movement: F, BT46 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Allemandes, Movement: C, BT62 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Allemandes, Movement: C, BT63 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Allemandes, Movement: F, 'L'Affligée', BT124 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Sarabandes, Movement: F, BT23 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Sarabandes, Movement: C, BT74 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Sarabandes, Movement: G, BT120 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Courantes, Movement: F, BT102 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Courantes, Movement: C, BT64 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Courantes, Movement: G, BT117 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Gigues, Movement: C, BT76 |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Gigues, Movement: G, BT127 (Canaris) |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Autre brusque |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Autre |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Chaconne |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Rondeau |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| (La) Drollerie |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| (Le) Printemps |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
| Gaillarde and Double |
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer
Françoise Lengellé, Harpsichord Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Composer |
Author:
Francoise Lengelle's most appealing recording of unpublished pieces by Chambonnieres has changed my view of harpsichords on CD. The immediacy is stunning; the instruments, built by David Ley (modelled on ones by Ruckers and Blanchet of 1644 and 1765), and the careful placement of the microphones have ensured a sweetness of sound in which no clattery action intrudes. The engineer has taken particular care to preserve the decay of all the final notes, so providing pleasingly realistic pauses between movements.
Chambonnieres'spieces de clavecin—especially those that come from manuscript sources—are not yet so familiar as those of his pupils, Louis Couperin and Froberger, though they are now available in facsimile editions. Their beauty, subtlety and craftsmanship should win players and listeners alike when played so stylishly as this. Chambonnieres is credited with having established the basic order of dance-suite movements in France and was among the first to translate lute techniques of ornamentation and style brise into those of the harpsichord. His allemandes, courantes and sarabandes are models of clarity and intricacy, harmonically focused, rhythmically layered and exquisitely ornamented. Lengelle's performance leaves little to be desired. She plays with grace and assurance, intelligently, with sentiment and wit. Her sense of timing, particularly in the courantes and the passacaille (Le printemps), is often breathtaking; not only are tempos and phrases beautifully judged, so too are individual notes and chords. Her use of inegalite is never contrived, her sense of choreography and gesture is evident throughout. Lengelle is a player to encourage (she won first prize at the 1977 Bruges Harpsichord Competition and yet it is apparently only now that she makes her recording debut) and I very much look forward to her next record.
Here, at last, is included an attractive and informative CD booklet; with an excellent note by Catherine Massip (unfortunately, the harpsichord builder's English translation is often misleading), a useful biographical sketch of the artist and colour photographs of the instruments.'
Chambonnieres's
Here, at last, is included an attractive and informative CD booklet; with an excellent note by Catherine Massip (unfortunately, the harpsichord builder's English translation is often misleading), a useful biographical sketch of the artist and colour photographs of the instruments.'
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières Harpsichord works
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